Creamy spinach and bacon pasta
Serves:
4
Time to make:
15 mins
Total cost:
$10.36 / $2.59 per serve
(at time of publication)
(at time of publication)
Health information:
Gluten-free (or can be made gluten-free*)
High calcium
Low fat
Instructions
Instructions and steps:
Step 1 Cook penne following packet directions. Drain. Return to saucepan. Steam spinach in a separate saucepan (or microwave) until tender. Squeeze out moisture, chop and add to pasta.
Step 2 Meanwhile, cook bacon in a frying pan for 4-5 minutes over a medium heat. Add onions and cook for 2 more minutes.
Step 3 Combine 1/4 cup evaporated milk with cornflour. Add to bacon with the remaining evaporated milk. Stir until mixture thickens. Add pasta and spinach to pan and stir until heated through. Serve.
Variations
Make it gluten-free: Use gluten-free pasta, bacon and cornflour.
Serving suggestions
Salad
About this Recipe
Photography: André Martin
First Published:
July 2010
Rating:
(12 votes)
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Full ingredient list:
- 2 3/4 cups penne pasta
- 1 bunch spinach, washed, trimmed
- 225g lean bacon, trimmed, sliced
- 4 spring onions, sliced
- 375ml can light evaporated milk
- 3 teaspoons cornflour
Nutritional information (per serve)
Energy:
1960kJ
Calories:
468cal
Protein:
29g
Fat:
9g
- saturated:
4g
Carbohydrates:
70g
- sugars:
13g
Dietary Fibre:
3g
Sodium:
580mg
Calcium:
320mg
Iron:
2.5mg
Nutrition information is given per serve
*NS: not specified
10 Comments. Add yours
Love this one, it's one of our reguilar meals
Kids love it and it's so quick and easy
Done this dinner a couple of times and it is quick and easy. I think I'm going to try it with mushroom in too!
a must do
Love this - accidentally used a can of coconut flavoured evaporated milk once which was a little strange with the bacon but might have been nice with chicken?
So good and so quick! kids love it too =)
I was surprised at how easy this was! I replaced the bacon for ham for a lower kilojoule meal and added a little more spinach. I used frozen spinach and it still worked fine :)
Adding garlic to this recipe ,gives it a nice spice =)
Love love love it. Im always a little dubious about evaporated milk, but this turns out really nice with some added garlic (i added while cooking the spinach) and a courgette. added bonus its low cal!!
So please do tell, people, how do you measure 2 3/4 cups of pasta of any kind? Has anyone actually tried to measure dried pasta by the cup? Why, oh why don't recipe writers give us measurements in grams or fractions of packets. All our dried pastas are sold in packets by weight, which is written on the packet, so even 'half a packet' or '1/3 packet' would be more helpful than cups!