Main Meals

Creamed spinach pasta

Name: Creamed spinach pasta
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Main Meals
Ingredients: butter 100 g ,cake flour 50 g ,milk 1cup ,sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste ,bouquet garni 1,Cheddar cheese 100 g ,spinach, washed 200 g ,penne, cooked al dente 500 g

By Khanya Mzongwana

Serves 6

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 5 minutes

cooking Time 20 minutes

Who doesn't love creamed spinach? In this time-saving method, you make a cheese sauce, then stir chopped spinach through it. Now how about stirring it into a big ol' bowl of pasta?

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Ingredients

Method

100 g butter
50 g cake flour
1 cup milk
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
1 bouquet garni
100 g Cheddar cheese
200 g spinach, washed
500 g penne, cooked al dente

Method

Ingredients

1. Melt the butter in a saucepan.

2. Whisk in the flour.

3. Gradually whisk the milk in and season.

4. Add the bouquet garni and simmer very gently. Season with salt and pepper.

5. After about 5 minutes, remove the bouquet garni and whisk in the cheese.

6. Chop the spinach very finely or blitz in a blender until chunky.

7. Stir the raw spinach into the sauce.

8. Simmer for five minutes, then stir in the pasta. Serve immediately.

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Photographs: Jan Ras
Production: Khanya Mzongwana
Food assistant: Ellah Maepa

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Recipe by: Khanya Mzongwana

If you're anything like our deputy food editor Khanya Mzongwana, you're obsessed with uniqueness and food with feeling. Cook her family-tested favourites, midweek winners and her mouth-wateringly fresh takes on plant-based eating.

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