This Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta is:
Simple & easy
Family-friendly
Dairy-free
Make it gluten-free
30-minute Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta. Tasty pasta made with sun-dried tomatoes, spinach, and topped with a creamy dairy-free sauce and crushed red peppers. This pasta is family-friendly and simple to whip up for dinner.
Gluten-free? Substitute the pasta and flour to make the entire dish gluten-free. Not a fan of spicy food? Cut out the crushed red peppers and add dried oregano or dried basil instead.
TIPS WHEN MAKING THIS CREAMY SAUCE
- Turn your stovetop to low heat and slowly melt the butter in a medium pot. After the butter melts, add the flour and whisk until it becomes a lumpy mixture.
- After you have created the butter, and flour mixture immediately add the milk to the pot while whisking the entire time.
- Whisk the mixture until all of the clumps have turned into a creamy sauce.
- Increase the heat to medium-low for 3-4 minutes, whisking the entire time. You do not want it to turn into a rolling boil, this sauce can easily burn.
- Lastly, add the salt, pepper, tomato paste, nutritional yeast, garlic powder, and whisk once more.
- Immediately take the creamy sauce off the heat until you are ready to add it to your pasta mixture.
Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta
Course: UncategorizedDifficulty: Easy4
servings30
minutesTasty pasta made with sun-dried tomatoes, spinach, and topped with a creamy dairy-free sauce and crushed red peppers. This pasta is family friendly and simple to whip up for dinner.
Ingredients
12 ounces of pasta, cooked according to the back of the package.
2 Tbsp butter, I used dairy-free
2 Tbsp all-purpose flour, substitute for gluten-free flour
1 ½ cup dairy-free milk
⅔ cup sun-dried tomatoes
1 ½ cup fresh packed spinach, (optional)
1 Tbsp garlic powder
2 Tbsp nutritional yeast
1 Tbsp tomato paste
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1 tsp crushed red pepper
Directions
- Cook pasta according to package, drain, and set aside.
- Heat a medium pot or dutch oven on low heat and add the butter. Once melted add the flour and whisk until it becomes a clumpy paste.
- Slowly, add the milk and whisk until all clumps have smoothed out.
- Increase the heat to medium low for 3-4 minutes, whisking the entire time. You do not want it to turn into a rolling boil, this sauce can easily burn.
- Add the salt, pepper, tomato paste, nutritional yeast, garlic powder, and whisk once more.
- In a large bowl add the cooked pasta, sun-dried tomatoes, fresh spinach (optional) sauce, and toss. The warm pasta sauce will cook the spinach enough without it wilting.
- Sprinkle with crushed red pepper, eat, and enjoy!
Notes
- Don’t like spinach? Make this creamy pasta without fresh spinach
- You can use sun-dried tomatoes from a package or from a jar. If you use sun-dried tomatoes from a jar just make sure to rinse, drain, and chop them into small pieces before adding them to the pasta.
- Any type of pasta like rigatoni, gnocchi, and farfalle would taste wonderful with this creamy sauce.
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