I wanted to have a quick meal without messing around in the kitchen. I do love cooking, but I'm not a big fan of the dishes afterwards. So I made my pasta with veggies in 1 cooking pot.
These are the ingredients I used:
- handful of frozen peas
- handful of frozen sugar snaps
- 4 slices of bacon
- 100 gram of spelt pasta
- 1 Knorr creamy sauce package
- cream
On the picture you can see the spelt spaghetti, but I changed my mind and used spelt penne instead. You can choose the pasta that you like, but spelt pasta is the only one I can eat.
No need to defrost the veggies, we will boil them together with the pasta in 1 cooking pot (as promised).
The only thing I did before was baking the bacon in the Airfryer (6 minutes on 180 C).
So here we go ... Set the timer!
First we bring the water in the pot to a boil. Make sure you have a large amount of water, because we will use a part of it for the sauce.
Poor the pasta in the cooking pot, stir quickly so they don't stick together and add the frozen veggies. The spelt pasta takes 6 minutes to be cooked al dente.
Normally I add some salt to the boiling water, but not this time as the bacon is already a bit salty.
Meanwhile cut the bacon into stripes of little pieces, the way you like it.
After 6 minutes take 250 ml water out of the cooking pot and set aside. I use this water instead of fresh from the tap. It has some flavor and nutrients from the veggies.
Drain the pasta and veggies and set aside. You don't need to cover it, it will only take a few minutes.
Put the empty cooking pot back on the stove and pour the powder for the sauce, together with the 250ml of water. Use a whisk and stir firmly. Because the pot and the water is hot, it will go very quickly. I added a bit of cream to enhance the sauce a bit and some Italian herbs.
Take the pasta and veggies and mix it in the cooking pot with the sauce.
Serve in a bowl and enjoy!
Stop the timer .. That didn't take long to make dinner!
And now the fun part: not much work in the kitchen to clean up and do the dishes. I'm a happy girl 😉😁
