Alternative Alfredo
If you know nothing about Italian cuisine, you definitely know Alfredo sauce, while so tasty, is just not good for you.
Here’s an alternative that, really, tastes nothing like Alfredo, but serves as a decent alternative and makes for an overall pretty good yet healthy dish. It also nicely features fresh spinach, which I think deserves a little positive attention after all that sick-ness inducing unpleasantness earlier this year.
Using non-fat plain yogurt as the base, you can whip up this sauce in about 15 minutes and toss with the pasta of your choice. I like bowties because they are cute. Maybe sauté some fresh mushroom slices or sun-dried tomatoes with the garlic to add to the “Alfredo.�
Pasta with spinach and lemon
Ingredients:
12 ounces pasta
1 ½ C. plain, non-fat yogurt
1 Tbsp. flour
1 Tbsp. olive oil
2 tsp. garlic, minced
10 ounces fresh spinach
1 tsp. lemon juice
fresh ground pepper, to taste
mozzarella cheese, shredded, to taste
Directions:
In a bowl, combine yogurt and flour until smooth. In a large sauce pan, heat olive oil over medium heat. Cook garlic for about two minutes. Add yogurt mixture, stirring constantly. Add spinach and cook until wilted. Add lemon juice and pepper. Meanwhile, cook pasta according to package directions. Toss pasta with sauce and stir in desired (but modest) amount of cheese.
1 Comment
deb butler writes:
this was great. I added some sliced mushrooms and some chicken to it. everyone had seconds.
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