Quick & Easy 5 minute Pasta Meal

We got an Instant Pot for Christmas and it has changed our life. However, this is a story of Instant Pot rookies who didn’t realize we couldn’t use tomato sauce in an Instant Pot when using the pressure cooker setting 😬. While our chicken parm cooked on the crockpot setting, we had to throw this little number together at the last minute. We always keep ingredients for a “pasta hodgepodge” meal because A. We love pasta and B. It’s a perfect last minute meal. This one in particular has pesto sauce, canned chickpeas, spinach, canned diced tomatoes, olives, ricotta salata, pine nuts and a little parm. Took us about 5 minutes after the pasta was cooked. So delicious and bonus chicken parm for leftovers! Cheers!

Quick & Easy Pasta Meal

January 23, 2017

by Lindsay

Category Cooking Food Prep Recipes Uncategorized

quick and easy pasta meal

Ingredients

• 1 pound pasta
• 6 oz pesto sauce
• 1 can chickpeas
• 1 can olives
• 1 can diced tomatoes
• 3 cups spinach
• 4 oz ricotta salata
• 1/3 cup pine nuts
• Parmesan cheese to taste

Instructions

1. Boil water with pinch of salt. Cook pasta. Drain and return to pot.
2. Drain and rinse chickpeas, tomatoes and olives in a colander. Add to cooked pasta.
3. Add pesto, spinach, ricotta salata and pine nuts to the pot.
4. Mix well. Serve with parmesan cheese.

Tags

Family Feeding,

meal planning,

Plan to Eat,

Quick & Easy Recipes

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