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Penne alla Casa (Penne in Creamy Tomato Sauce)

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 4 Difficulty: medium

Categories: Sauce, Vegetarian, Italian

Tags: easy, inexpensive, italian, recipes for pasta sauce, recipes using garlic, recipes using heavy cream, recipes using pasta, recipes using pecorino, recipes using pepper, recipes using spinach, recipes using tomato, vegetarian

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3APenne_alla_Casa_%28Penne_in_Creamy_Tomato_Sauce%29)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3APenne%20alla%20Casa%20%28Penne%20in%20Creamy%20Tomato%20Sauce%29&oldid=4516481

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • ¼ cup freshly chopped garlic
  • 2 cups heavy cream
  • ¼ cup sun-dried tomatoes, julienned
  • 1½ cups marinara sauce
  • Salt, to taste
  • Pepper, to taste
  • Granulated garlic, to taste
  • ½ pound fresh spinach
  • ½ cup grated Pecorino Romano cheese
  • 1 pound penne pasta cooked al dente and drained

Directions

  1. Heat olive oil in a large pot over high heat.
  2. Add garlic, and sauté until it just begins to brown (be careful not to burn garlic), about 1 minute.
  3. Add cream and sun-dried tomatoes, and bring to a boil.
  4. Add marinara sauce.
  5. Cook, stirring occasionally, until sauce thickens and is reduced by one-fourth.
  6. Season with salt, pepper and granulated garlic.
  7. Fold in spinach and Romano, and heat just until spinach is wilted and cheese melted.
  8. Toss with pasta and serve hot.