CREAMY TORTELLINI WITH SPINACH & TOMATOES

A saucy pasta dinner could be difficult to discover in a single dish, but this Creamy Tortellini with Spinach & Tomatoes absolutely does deliver.



Ingredients

  • 1 lb cheese tortellini
  • 1 tbsp minced garlic
  • 1 cup chopped recent spinach
  • 1 14.5 ounce can petite diced tomatoes
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons dried basil
  • 1 teaspoon onion flakes
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 cups half-and-half
  • 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Instructions

  • Begin by boiling your tortellini noodles till they're al dente (aka ready). Follow the directions at the bundle for boiling time.
  • While the tortellini is boiling, roughly chop the spinach.
  • Heat an enormous skillet utilizing medium warmth and placed the NULL minced garlic into it. Saute it in short till fragrant, about thirty seconds or so.
  • Add into the skillet the petite diced tomatoes (undrained), spinach, salt, pepper, dried basil, and onion flakes.
  • Cook and stir over medium excessive warmth till the combination starts to bubble.
  • In one other bowl, combine the flour and half-and-half. Whisk till quite smooth.
  • Add the creamy combination into the the skillet alongside with the Parmesan cheese.
  • Heat by means of and scale back the warmth to medium low and proceed to stir and prepare dinner till it thickens, about 5 minutes.
  • Add the tired tortellini and blend collectively gently.

Serve and enjoy!
Notes

  • recipe adapted from Bomb Shell Bling

Nutrition

  • Calories: 359kcal | Carbohydrates: 42g | Protein: 16g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 55mg | Sodium: 713mg | Potassium: 255mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 800IU | Vitamin C: 9.3mg | Calcium: 253mg | Iron: 3.2mg 

So in my head I had this pegged for a meatless Monday meal post, buuuuut Monday was Memorial Day, and also you fully recognise how it's whilst all these cookout invites from household & chums get within the method of cause and productivity.

You can use fresh, frozen, or dried tortellini on this recipe. I am now not even gonna lie though, frozen tortellini is considered one of my favourite issues to hold stocked within the freezer. It’s so simple to seize the bag and go, digging proper into a recipe.

You can’t beat the cooking time- it’s even sooner than plain vintage pasta. You also can’t beat the possibilities. Seriously, a quickly seek at the web website will present you simply what number of special recipes we’ve incorporated it into. And that’s simply what we’ve accomplished so far.

Also, it’s filled with cheese. Cheese. When has anybody ever complained about consuming cheese? Not any of my kids, at least- and as a hectic determine that’s an enormous deal.

Another factor my kids (miraculously) don’t whinge about eating? Spinach. Yep, you learn that right. It’s a fully weird phenomenon to similarly me and my husband, but it’s true.

Now granted, I don’t serve it to them by itself and never, ever the stuff from the can. That’s simply nasty, and don’t get my began at the borderline PTSD I undergo from a namely lengthy stand off/battle of the wills with my very own mom over it whilst I was somewhat bitty thing.

Really though, rather of pureeing veggies and ‘hiding’ them in saucy dishes, I simply throw them proper on in. I do attempt to make certain they’re namely yummy and flavorful though. It’s resulted in only a few complaints over the years. Thankfully. I exceptionally mean attempting it. You’d be stunned how nicely the technique works.

This delicious, saucy Creamy Tortellini with Spinach & Tomatoes is a huge option to get your household to willingly eat, and enjoy, a couple of issues they otherwise may not. Very few recipes appeal to my guys to do something special than run clear of tomatoes, yet they arrive runnin’ to the supper desk for this one.

For such a liked meal, this one is similarly easy. Cook your tortellini according to the bundle directions, Drain, and set apart for a bit. Then everything comes collectively in a single pot. Easy to fix, or even simpler blank up.

This Creamy Tortellini with Spinach & Tomatoes recipe has a medium sized factor list, but now not too long. Also, it does use issues we virtually all the time have reachable which makes it a huge go-to on busy nights.

From soar to finish, in much lower than 20 minutes, you possibly could have a healthy, hot meal at the desk that the entire household will love. How usually does that happen?!

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