Recipes
Bacon, spinach & tomato pasta
This quick and easy pasta dish is great when you're just cooking a quick meal for yourself or for a lunchbox
This quick and easy pasta dish is great when you're just cooking a quick meal for yourself or for a lunchbox
(8 votes)
Cook: 15 Mins
Serves: 1
Price: £1.29 per serving
Nutritional Information
Each 595g serving contains
Energy
2112kj
505kcal
2112kj
505kcal
25%
Fat
19.7g
19.7g
Med
28%
28%
Saturates
3.2g
3.2g
Med
16%
16%
Sugars
19.7g
19.7g
High
22%
22%
Salt
0.29g
0.29g
Low
5%
5%
2
of your 5-a-dayof your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
355kj/85kcal
Typical energy values per 100g:
355kj/85kcal
Ingredients
85g fusilli pasta (or penne pasta)
50g frozen sweetcorn
1 tsp sunflower oil
1 rasher unsmoked back bacon
100g baby plum tomatoes, halved
1/4 x 160g pack washed baby leaf spinach
50g Chosen by you 50% Less Fat Garlic & Herbs Soft Cheese
Method
1
Put the pasta in a pan of boiling water. Bring back to the boil. Stir, then simmer fast for 10 minutes, adding the frozen sweetcorn for the final 5 minutes. Drain, reserving 2 tbsp of the water. Put the pasta and sweetcorn back in the pan.
2
Meanwhile, heat the oil in a nonstick frying pan. Cut the bacon into small strips and cook until the fat starts to crisp. Add the baby plum tomatoes and cook for 2-3 minutes, until they begin to soften.
3
Add the spinach to the frying pan and cook for 1 minute until it wilts. Set aside.
4
Slowy add the soft cheese and the reserved cooking water to the pan of drained pasta and sweetcorn. Stir over a low heat until the pasta is completely coated. Add the bacon, tomatoes and spinach, and stir together. Serve sprinkled with back pepper.