A quick & easy cream cheese sauce for your favorite pasta
A pasta dinner with a sauce made from cheese AND a vegetable removes just a little bit of the guilt, right? Well, I thought so. This recipe contains a cream cheese sauce made with salty feta, funky parmesan, aromatic garlic, and healthy spinach. This combo packs a flavor punch with this wonderful combination. And adding a little pasta water helps it to beautifully coat each strand of linguine, fettuccine, spaghetti, or whatever you like!
The consistency of the sauce is not “creamy” like an alfredo or cream-based sauce. However, it does not skimp on flavor and visual appeal with the lovely specks of green laced around each strand of pasta. My baby actually loved eating bite-sized pieces of this pasta for many days after, so your kids will love it too!
Make this pasta dish in 3 easy steps
Step 1: Boil the pasta and reserve some of the pasta water.
Step 2: Make the sauce (in a food processor…easy peasy!).
Step 3: Mix the pasta with the sauce.
Done!
What you’ll need to make this lovely cream cheese sauce
- Food processor or blender–it will Simplify Your Life!
- Fresh or frozen spinach (just defrost it in the microwave for a few minutes first)
- Cream cheese (or substitute with vegan cream cheese)
- Feta cheese (here is an amazing vegan feta recipe if you want to make your own)
- Parmesan cheese (or substitute with nutritional yeast)
- Pasta (a long type, such as linguine, fettuccine, spaghetti, tagliatelle, etc.)
- Pasta water–to loosen up the cream cheese sauce and make it silky
Certainly, a fabulous sauce for pasta has never been so quick and easy to make. You will have a tasty dinner in minutes!
More quick and easy pasta recipes (click the links below)
- One Pan Chicken & Sundried Tomato Pasta
- Toasted Hazelnut Pesto with Blistered Tomatoes
- Mediterranean Roasted Eggplant & Tomato Pasta
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- Gather the ingredients to make the Pasta with Cream Cheese Sauce. Prepare the pasta according to the package directions. Be sure to reserve some of the pasta water to use later.
- In a small food processor, add the garlic and pulse until minced. Next, add the spinach and pulse until chopped finely. Then, add the cheeses, salt, and pepper and blend together until smooth.
- Pour the sauce into the drained pasta. Add the reserved pasta water and toss the pasta until evenly coated.
- Drizzle the pasta with olive oil and sprinkle with parmesan before serving. Yum!
Ingredients
Directions
- Gather the ingredients to make the Pasta with Cream Cheese Sauce. Prepare the pasta according to the package directions. Be sure to reserve some of the pasta water to use later.
- In a small food processor, add the garlic and pulse until minced. Next, add the spinach and pulse until chopped finely. Then, add the cheeses, salt, and pepper and blend together until smooth.
- Pour the sauce into the drained pasta. Add the reserved pasta water and toss the pasta until evenly coated.
- Drizzle the pasta with olive oil and sprinkle with parmesan before serving. Yum!
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This pasta was absolutely delicious! We made it as a side for chicken. So simple and everyone loved it!
I’m so happy to hear that! Great idea to pair it with chicken…yum!