Creamy Farfalle Pasta with Spinach, Mushrooms, and Caramelized Onions. this easy meatless Italian dinner is pure comfort food! The bow-tie shaped pasta is perfectly matched with rich and buttery Parmesan sauce!
Bow-tie pasta with Spinach, Mushrooms, Caramelized Onions
FARFALLE – necktie PASTA
Farfalle pasta is supposed to be used with creamy sauces, like with chicken broccoli alfredo (with or without chicken) or with this creamy four-cheese spaghetti sauce. In fact, this farfalle recipe was inspired by another family favorite that features an upscale creamy pasta sauce: spinach mushroom pasta.
Farfalle works great both in meatless recipes and in dishes with meat. This particular recipe is meatless. However, you'll easily add any quite meat or seafood. Add easy seared chicken or grilled chicken to the present creamy necktie pasta. Who doesn’t like creamy pasta, especially if you add some chicken to it? It’s an ideal dish to form for a family weeknight dinner.
If you enjoy seafood, add seared scallops with bacon or trout with garlic Meuniere butter sauce.
FARFALLE: ITALIAN PASTA
This Italian-inspired recipe features bow-tie shaped pasta smothered with easy white sauce along with side vegetables and mushrooms. You’ll love this easy food on a plate.
Simple ingredients. This recipe requires basic ingredients that you simply can purchase just about at any store: bow-tie pasta, spinach, mushrooms, onions, garlic, cream, and Parmesan cheese.
Packed with veggies. This meatless farfalle recipe uses spinach and caramelized onions. It’s an excellent and delicious thanks to incorporate more vegetables into your dinners.
Caramelized onions add such a lot of flavor and class to the present dish!
Weeknight dinner recipe. This easy recipe is ideal for those busy weeknights once you don’t have much time for cooking. It’s also an excellent recipe to use any leftover chicken. Just contribute some leftover cooked chicken along with side creamy farfalle pasta, and you've got an ideal family dinner!
Flexible recipe. What I really like about this creamy bow-tie pasta is that you simply can serve it as is, without meat! Or, you'll add protein, if you wish. Serve farfalle with grilled steak, grilled chicken, or fish.
WHAT IS FARFALLE?
Farfalle maybe a bow-tie shaped Italian pasta. Farfalle pasta also can be described as butterfly-shaped pasta. In fact, “farfalle” means “butterflies” in Italian.
Farfalle dates back to the 16th century in Lombardia and Emilia-Romagna Regions in Northern Italy.
Farfalle is usually used with cream sauces and in tomato-based sauces. It’s also popular in salads.
SUBSTITUTIONS
What are you able to use rather than farfalle? you'll substitute penne, rigatoni, fusilli, or orecchiette for farfalle without affecting the flavor.
What are you able to substitute for spinach? you'll use kale, Swiss chard, or arugula rather than spinach.
What quite mushrooms are you able to use? Use button mushrooms, cremini mushrooms, portobello, shiitake, or oyster mushrooms.
How to make this recipe gluten-free? Use gluten-free farfalle or other sorts of gluten-free pasta.
What are you able to use rather than half-and-half? Use 1/2 cup of cream + 1/2 cup of milk rather than 1 cup of half-and-half.
COOKING TIPS
Make-ahead tip. Make caramelized onions before time, refrigerate them in an air-tight container, and use within the subsequent 3 days. you'll also freeze caramelized onions for up to 2 months and thaw them whenever you would like them.
If the creamy Parmesan sauce is just too thick, slowly add a little amount of half-and-half to thin it out. confirm the sauce continues to simmer and doesn't come to a standstill, while you add half-and-half to thin it out.
If the creamy Parmesan sauce is just too thin, add a little amount of shredded Parmesan cheese, and stir it in, while the sauce simmers.
HOW LONG does one COOK FARFALLE?
Usually, farfalle is cooked during a pot of boiling water for 10 minutes.
To prepare farfalle hard, cook farfalle for 8 minutes, or for two minutes but indicated on the package instructions.
HOW TO MAKE FARFALLE PASTA
First, caramelize onions for a half-hour to succeed in a pleasant chocolate color. (See: the way to caramelize onions). This step is often made ahead. Make caramelized onions each day or two beforehand and keep them refrigerated in an airtight container.
Next, cook the mushrooms in 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil.
Then, add spinach to cooked mushrooms and stir until spinach wilts.
Next, make the creamy spaghetti sauce. Add half-and-half and shredded Parmesan cheese to the skillet with spinach and mushrooms. Stir, while the sauce simmers, until the cheese melts.
Add caramelized onions to the skillet.
Add cooked and drained farfalle pasta to the skillet with the spaghetti sauce and reheat on low heat for a few minutes.
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