Quick and easy does not equate to inferior dishes. This dish can be made under 20 minutes because we use ready-made good quality and healthy ingredients from the supermarket. When there are options for a quicker completion, it doesn't hurt to try it unless you have a lot of time on your hands.
Ingredients
- 1 pound of pasta of your choice, linguine is used in this example
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 sweet onion, chopped
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 cup frozen chopped organic spinach
- 1 jar of roasted organic red bell peppers, or 2 fresh roasted organic red peppers, roughly chopped (this comes back to how much time we have)
- 1 1/2 cups of non-dairy milk, unsweetened soy, rice or almond milk works
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 1/2 tbsp cornstarch
- few shakes of red pepper flakes
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to directions on the package (al-dente is best always)
- Heat oil in a medium sauce pan, over medium high heat. Add onion. Sauté for 5 minutes of until onion is translucent and soft.
- Add garlic. Sauté for about 1 minute. Careful not to burn and stir constantly.
- Add frozen spinach and sauté until heated and thawed.
- Remove from heat. Add in roasted red pepper, milk, nutritional yeast, cornstarch, and red pepper flakes.
- Blend ingredients using an immersion blender or a regular blender. Blend until smooth.
- Place back over heat, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Sauce should start to thicken, taste and season with salt and pepper generously.
- Once thickened and seasoned, pasta should be done. Toss pasta and sauce together and serve immediately.
- Easy peesy.
