One-Pot Italian Pasta
This quick one-pot Italian pasta recipe is the ultimate comfort meal! It's so easy to make and uses only simple, flavorful ingredients.
Ingredients
- 500 g spaghetti You can use gluten-free spaghetti, if needed
- 500 ml tomato juice passata
- 6 cloves garlic minced
- 2 tbsp fresh basil chopped
- 200 g fresh spinach
- 2 Tbsps parmesan grated, optional – vegans can skip this or replace it with some nooch - nutritional yeast flakes
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1-2 pinches chili flakes
- ½ tsp ground pepper
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Add water into a large pot and bring it to a boil. Add ½ tsp of salt.
- When it starts boiling, add spaghetti.
- Cook spaghetti for 8 minutes.
- Drain almost all the water, but leave just a little bit on the bottom (about ½ cup).
- Put the pot back on the stove at low temperature.
- Add tomato juice and stir.
- Add garlic cloves, salt, pepper, onion powder, and chili flakes.
- Cook for 3 more minutes, while stirring occasionally.
- Add basil and 1-2 handfuls of spinach. Stir and cover the fresh leaves with the hot pasta. It will steam in a couple of seconds.
- Add the rest of the spinach and stir. Let it steam in the hot pasta.
- Cook for 2 more minutes and remove from heat.
- Add grated parmesan (optional), stir and cover with a lid.
- You can serve it in about a minute.