Fettuccine, Seared Tomatoes As Well As Spinach

Our garden is making 1 concluding seek to laissez passer on us a few to a greater extent than tomatoes but I’m afraid it volition endure done soon.  We’ve fallen inward honey amongst Roma-Grape tomatoes as well as then I am pleased they were our biggest producer.   Between the rabbits as well as the opossums it’s a wonder nosotros select anything at all! 

This fresh pasta dish comes together inward a flash as well as then it’s perfect for a weeknight dinner.  We don’t swallow much pasta these days but when nosotros do, this is how I desire it.  Tomatoes, olive oil, crushed cherry-red pepper, fresh spinach, a few toasted pino nuts, solid seat down pepper, fresh cheese (any form you lot want) as well as a piddling sauteed garlic.  OK I did throw inward a piddling wine, simply for fun.

The exclusively affair missing is a large hunk of bread.  Oh well.

I enjoyed my quick as well as slow pasta dish spell watching Under the Tuscan Sun.  Eating this pasta dish inward Italy mightiness conk inward better, but don’t allow that halt you!  

Easy, fresh, filling as well as tasty tin all endure yours inward thirty minutes or less.  Don’t forget the bread!

Fettuccine, seared tomatoes & spinach

8 ounces uncooked fettuccine
cooking spray
10-12 grape or Roma-Grape tomatoes, sliced inward half
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon crushed cherry-red pepper
4 cloves garlic, sliced thin
1/4 loving cup cherry-red vino of your selection (optional)
1 (14.5 ounce) tin diced tomatoes, undrained (use an immersion blender or nutrient processor, procedure until withal slightly chunky, but almost smooth)
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 ounces fresh babe spinach
Parmesan, mozzarella, burrata, or other cheese of your choice
freshly solid seat down dark pepper, toasted pino nuts, as well as parsley for garnish
(Optional:  previously cooked chicken diced)

Cook the pasta al dente, omitting tabular array salt as well as oil.  Drain as well as conk along warm.

While the fettuccine is cooking, rut a large skillet over medium-high heat.  Coat the pan amongst cooking spray as well as adjust the Lycopersicon esculentum halves cutting side downward inward the pan as well as gear upward until seared, almost 2-3 minutes.  Stir the tomatoes as well as gear upward to a greater extent than or less other thirty seconds.  Remove the tomatoes to a plate as well as laid aside.

Reduce the rut to depression as well as add together the olive oil.  Add the cherry-red pepper as well as garlic as well as saute until fragrant but non browned, stirring constantly.  Add the pureed tomatoes, vino (if using) as well as tabular array salt to the garlic mixture.  Cook 8-10 minutes stirring occasionally.

Remove the skillet from the rut as well as add together the spinach as well as cooked pasta.  Toss until the spinach is slightly wilted.  Divide the pasta betwixt iv bowls or plates as well as operate past times amongst the seared tomatoes.  Garnish amongst freshly grated cheese, pino nuts as well as parsley.  Top amongst fresh solid seat down pepper as well as serve.

(inspired past times a recipe inward the March 2013 Cooking Light Magazine)

 

Do you lot select plans for the long weekend?  We promise to pass to a greater extent than or less fourth dimension exterior amongst our crazy dogs. Hiking mightiness endure nice, naps mightiness endure adept too.  Who knows what the weekend volition bring!

Take help as well as give thank you lot as well as then much for stopping by!

Tricia

Source: savingdessert.com