The Best Spicy Pasta with Spinach and Mushrooms

This spicy pasta has a creamy tomato based sauce. The chilli flakes give a nice heat that you can adjust to your preferred spice level.

Pasta is one of my favourite things to make as a uni student. Its both quick and easy to make and doesn’t cost a lot. However, I don’t have pasta every night of the week, so if I buy a jar of pasta sauce then it usually goes off before I can use it up. Making your own sauce means you can control how much you make, and trust me its a lot easier than you think!

This pasta originally started as just a spicy tomato sauce but I definitely don’t get enough veggies 😬, so I thought I’d add some in. Also the spinach and mushrooms go really nice together. I don’t have specific mushroom listed because I just use what’s on hand. I tend to use a closed cup mushroom or button mushroom.

If you don’t have cream I have made this recipe using milk. You may need to add a little bit extra pasta water to if its too thin (the starch from the pasta helps to thicken it).

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Spicy Pasta with Spinach and Mushrooms

Creamy tomato based pasta sauce with chilli flakes for a nice heat

Keyword Spicy Pasta

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes minutes

Servings 2 servings

Ingredients

• 1 Tbsp Oil
• 1/2 Onion diced
• 100 g Mushroom
• 2-3 cloves Garlic minced
• 4 Tbsp Tomato paste
• 1/2 c Cream
• 1/2 cup Reserved pasta water
• Salt and Pepper
• 1/4 c Parmesan grated
• Baby Spinach
• 1 tsp Chilli flakes
• 1 ½ cup Pasta roughly

Instructions

• Prep your ingredients by dicing the onion and slicing the mushrooms, you can also mince your garlic at this point if you don't have a garlic press
• Set a pot of salted water to boil, then add in your pasta to cook
• When your pasta is cooked drain it but reserve 1/2 -1 cup of the water
• While the pasta is cooking heat your oil in a pan over medium low heat then add your onion
• Once your onion has begun to soften add in the mushrooms
• When the mushrooms have browned add in the garlic and cook for about a minute before adding the tomato paste
• Stir in the tomato paste and let it cook a little
• Add in the cream and stir until fully combined with the tomato paste
• Add in some of the pasta water, a spoonful at a time. You can adjust how much water you add depending on how thick or thin you want your sauce.
• Sprinkle in the chilli flakes.
• Let the sauce cook for a few minutes then taste and add salt and pepper as needed
• Mix in the grated parmesan
• Roughly chop about 2 generous handfuls of spinach and add to the sauce. Mix through and allow the spinach to cook
• Finally turn off the heat and add the cooked pasta straight to the sauce pan. Stir to fully coat the pasta in sauce
• Serve in a bowl with some grated parmesan sprinkled on top

Notes

The pasta measurement is just a rough approximation of how much dry pasta you will need. If you are using a different shape of pasta it will change slightly.

Let me know your thoughts down in the comments! And tag me on instagram @littlewalletbigdreams if you make it.

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