Penne with Ricotta and Spinach
From lacrenshaw 15 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 6
This dish comes together so easily but is also able to star as an elegant side dish with chicken, pork or veal cutlets.
Ingredients
- 1 pound penne OR any tubular pasta shopping list
- 1 pound fresh OR 10 ounces frozen spinach shopping list
- 1/4 pound butter shopping list
- salt shopping list
- 1/2 cup ricotta cheese, not no fat shopping list
- 1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese shopping list
How to make it
- Wash spinach well and cook in a covered pan over medium heat with a pinch of salt and no more water than clings to its leaves after washing OR thaw and drain drozen. Drain fresh spinach well and chop.
- Cook and drain pasta.
- Place pasta in a warm serving bowl.
- Melt 1/2 the butter in a large skillet.
- Add the spinach and 2 to 3 liberal dashes of salt.
- Saute spinach for 2 minutes, turning often.
- Add the spinach, ricotta, the remaining butter and all of the Parmesan to the pasta in the bowl.
- Mix thoroughly.
- Serve at once.
- We have been known to drain the pasta, return it to its pot and mix eveything together right in the pot. THEN we transfer it to a serving bowl!
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