al dente® pasta with spinach, pancetta, goat cheese
Al Dente® Pasta with Spinach, Pancetta and Goat Cheese
It’s day number 3 celebrating National Pasta Month. My personal pasta challenge has been to make and eat pasta every day for the rest of October, sharing the recipes on the aldente canoodler. I’m finding tremendous satisfaction in this self-imposed discipline-measuring, documenting, blogging-then enjoying the final dish. All this with zero stress and no planning, simply looking in my fridge and deciding which ingredients to combine. It’s the way I have always cooked, but it’s the first time that I am organizing it so that others will hopefully be inspired by the simplicity of cooking fresh and healthy meals with pasta.
Today, I am finishing off the bag of Al Dente® Egg Linguine that I’ve already made 2 dishes from. This is the final proof that one bag of pasta does serve 6 people when combined with other ingredients. Equally exciting, recipes 1, 2, and 3 in the series have all been prepared in less than 10 minutes!
Al Dente® Pasta with Pancetta, Spinach, Goat Cheese, Walnuts and Sundried Tomatoes
serves 2
Total cooking time: less than 10 minutes
just a few ingredients to create a delicious pasta dish
1/3 bag Al Dente® Pasta, 4 oz.
1/2 cup pancetta, small cubes
10 oz. baby spinach
1/4 cup sundried tomatoe slivers, in oil
1/4 cup walnuts, toasted
2 oz. goat cheese
As with all of our recipes, begin by bringing a large pot of salted water to a boil in which you will cook your pasta for approximately 3 minutes and then drain before tossing in the skillet with the other ingredients.
substitute bacon, if desired.
Over medium heat, saute the pancetta until just crisp.
Add spinach to pancetta until just wilted.
Add the slivers of sundried tomatoes.
Toss cooked pasta along with walnuts, heating just until heated through. I found that this dish did not need salt or pepper, but that is to your taste.
Crumble the goat cheese over the pasta, serve and enjoy.
al dente® pasta canoodler 
I’ll be honest and say I’ve never tried your pastas, I ended up on your blog after you started following me on Twitter. I’m a food blogger always on the lookout for new things to try. I’ve been looking through your recipes and this one really jumped out at me.
I was lucky enough to spend a week in Brussels, Belgium this spring. My most memorable meal was in a little cafe. I ate outside on the sidewalk while listening to the start of a jazz festival being held just across the street. My French isn’t very good but I speak French food well so I managed to decipher a pasta dish that sounded fantastic.
It was bow tie pasta with olive oil, topped with sun-dried tomatoes, large chunks of goat cheese, slices of prosciutto and fresh arugula. It was delicious and certainly memorable. It sounds very similar to the recipe you’ve shared above and I’m excited to see it. It’s a great combination of flavors!
Thank you for sharing this recipe!
I hope you will try Al Dente Pasta soon and let me know what you think.