Pasta with spinach

There pasta with spinach it is a healthy, light and quick to prepare first course. A few ingredients will be enough for you, since spinach is really the undisputed protagonist, which makes this pasta a balanced dish on a nutritional level, but also very tasty and satiating. The elements that make up our spinach pasta are also easily available and cheap. You can use all types of pasta you prefer, even wholemeal or gluten-free, there really is no limit, the result will still be mouth-watering!

Ingredients for 4

  • Short pasta: 320 g
  • Fresh spinach: 300 g
  • Evo oil: to taste
  • Garlic: 1 clove
  • Chilli oil: to taste
  • Salt to taste
  • Pepper as needed
  • Grated cheese flakes: to taste
  • Preparation: 10 minutes
  • Cooking: 15 minutes
  • Total: 25 minutes
  • Calories: 180 Kcal / portion

Preparation

1

Clean and wash the spinach under running water.

2

In a pan pour a generous round of olive oil, add the clove of garlic and let it fry.

3

As soon as the garlic begins to fry, remove it and add the spinach. You can choose whether to leave the leaves whole or in pieces.

4

Salt lightly, let it cook for a couple of minutes so that they gain flavor in the sauté. The spinach is ready as soon as it is wilted.

5

In a large pot, put 3 liters of water and bring to a boil, then pour the pasta.

6

Cook the pasta for 15 minutes or as the package says, it is better if it is still al dente, then drain it.

7

Leaving the pasta in the colander for a few moments, take the cooked spinach and cut it finely.

8

Serve the pasta, season with the spicy oil and add the spinach. If you like, add some grated flaked cheese and a sprinkling of pepper powder. Serve the pasta with spinach hot with a drizzle of raw oil.

Tips and hints

Although the use of fresh spinachalso those frozeni can fit, as long as a whole leafand duly deprived of excess water before being cooked with sautéed.

Curiosity

Popeye taught us, eat him spinach it makes us become strong! But also healthy. In addition to containing ironspinach contain vitamins A And C., carotenoidie magnesium. Among the many benefitshelp the memorythe muscle function and guarantee us aantioxidant action And antitumor.

storage

There pasta with spinach it can be stored in the fridge in an airtight container. It should be consumed within 1/2 days at the most. It is advisable to heat it in a pan for 7/8 minutes, adding a drizzle of oil to regain all its own taste original.

Ingredients for 4

  • Short pasta: 320 g
  • Fresh spinach: 300 g
  • Evo oil: to taste
  • Garlic: 1 clove
  • Chilli oil: to taste
  • Salt to taste
  • Pepper as needed
  • Grated cheese flakes: to taste
  • Preparation: 10 minutes
  • Cooking: 15 minutes
  • Total: 25 minutes
  • Calories: 180 Kcal / portion
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