TMM Kitchen: Easy Bacon and Spinach Cream Pasta / Herb Chicken Recipes
Although pasta lovers tend to be choosy too at times: do you feel like having red sauce today? White sauce? Dry pasta? Pasta salad? There are so many options to cook pasta that's why I love it.
So the other day, I craved for both spinach and bacon. I wanted to make spinach lasagna, but I didn't have cottage cheese and cream cheese with me, so I opted for Penne pasta instead.
So here's what you can have for lunch today if you have the right ingredients in your kitchen. I will be putting some replacements in the ingredients list for your reference.
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| Don't mind the chicken, it's not included in the pasta. I made baked chicken with the pasta for the kids. I will include the recipe for the chicken rub for baking so you can try that too! |
INGREDIENTS (yield: 4-6 persons)
- 400g of Penne Pasta (any brand, but I like San Remo), cooked al dente
- Bunch of Spinach (with stems removed.) You can replace with chopped Broccoli too, or even Zucchini. Wash your veggies well! And then wash them again!
- 200g Pure Foods Honey Cured Bacon (it adds a bit of sweetness to the pasta), chopped.
- 1 whole head Garlic, thinly sliced.
- 2 Tbsps Salted Butter
- 1/2 white Onion, diced.
- 2 cups Full Cream Milk, room temperature
- 250ml All Purpose Cream
COOKING INSTRUCTIONS
1. Using your favorite non-stick skillet, add butter and saute your garlic, onions, and bacon, until the bacon becomes golden.
2. Add the bunch of spinach, and carefully toss until the spinach shrinks. Make sure that you really don't include the stems. I made the mistake of including a bit of the stems and it was just too hard to eat.
3. Add the milk first, and then your cream. Make sure that your milk and cream are in room temperature. If you add cold milk or cold cream to your pasta, it will clump and it will not look good. Keep stirring until well incorporated, and so that the milk and the cream won't burn at the bottom.
...and then add the Parmesan Cheese. Stir until well incorporated. Allow to simmer a bit until the sauce becomes thick. Not to thick though, just as long as it is no longer runny. Season with salt and pepper here according to your taste preference. For me though, I did not season anymore.
4. Remove the sauce out of the flame and transfer the sauce little by little to the Penne. Keep adding by ladle until the noodles and the sauce are well mixed together.
Serve warm with more Parmesan Cheese on the side!
By the way, if you would like the recipe for the chicken, I will be adding them below. This baked herb chicken goes really well with the pasta. Just rub the chicken with these dry ingredients and bake.
INGREDIENTS:
- 8pcs Chicken Drumsticks
- 1 tsp Garlic Powder
- 1 tsp Rosemary
- 1 tsp Thyme
- 1 tsp Italian Seasoning (I know that this is redundant, but I like adding this for a little more extra)
- 1 tsp Ground Peppercorn
- 2 tsps Iodized Salt
- 1 Tbsp Lemon
- 1/4 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
COOKING INSTRUCTIONS: Wash your chicken drumsticks well, then dry with a paper towel. Add all the ingredients in a baking dish and rub, rub, rub! Bake in your pre-heated oven at 180 degrees until the chicken is cooked!
If you wanna get fancy, you can drizzle with Balsamic Vinegar after it's cooked. Or you can skip it.
Enjoy!
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