One Pot Mushroom, Spinach and Rosemary Pasta
Sometimes it just feels like there is not enough time to cook, especially over lunch. This is where One Pot pasta comes in: it’s super easy to make, you literally put all the ingredients in one pot and wait and - it’s delicious! You can choose not to add the parmesan in the end or substituting it with vegan parmesan.
Last time I posted about the Tomato & Spinach One Pot which is one of my favourites but this time I wanted to make something a bit different and decided to use mushrooms and rosemary instead of the tomatoes (and keep the spinach as I love spinach and it’s super healthy).
The question a lot of people asked me was whether you ruin the dish by adding too much water and if it’s ok to remove water and the answers are No and Yes! The dish is definitely not ruined and you can always remove (or add) water if you feel like it’s just too much. The ingredients should be half way covered by water in the beginning but you will quickly see that the spinach will also give off quite a bit of water so it’s really up to you to check and see if you want to remove some. Today, while making this One Pot I removed around 5 Tbs of liquid as I thought it was a bit too liquidy at one point.
Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Cooking Time: 10 Minutes
Ingredients (for 2 portions)
Penne Rigate - 250 g (8 oz)
Champignon Mushrooms - 150 g (1 cup)
White Onion - 1 Small
Fresh Spinach - 150 g (1 cup)
Rosemary (either fresh or dry) - a bunch
Olive Oil
Water
Parmesan - as much as you like (you can either skip this or use vegan parmesan for a vegan version)
Chilly - if you want to add some spice
How to:
Cut the onion. Wash and cut the mushrooms and wash spinach leaves.
Place all the ingredients in a big enough pot (penne, sliced mushrooms, spinach leaves, white onion, rosemary, salt and some olive oil)
Pour some olive oil over everything and add around half a liter of water (you can always remove water later if you feel like it’s too much). Don’t worry if not every single ingredient is covered as the spinach leaves will also leave some water and you can always add some if you see that things are drying up.
Cook everything for 10 min at high heat (it needs to be boiling). After around 5 minutes you can assess the situation and see if water needs to be added/removed. Always leave some water as the pasta is cooking and will keep evaporating. Add in some more salt, pepper and chilly if you wish).
Once the 10 minutes are over make sure you do not have too much water left in your pot (remove if yes) and add your grated parmesan which will make everything super creamy.
Serve and enjoy :)