cheese tortellini with spinach and bacon
Use any shape of pasta you like! It works with both ravioli, tortellini, even spaghetti.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/2 pound bacon, cut into small pieces
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 1 package fresh (or frozen) cheese tortellini (or ravioli)
- 1 cup frozen chopped spinach
- 1/2 teaspoon salt & 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- Optional: freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Put a big pot of water on to boil.
- In a large saute pan, cook bacon pieces until crispy. Don’t drain the grease.
- Cook pasta according to directions, MINUS 1 minute (if it’s fresh this may only mean cooking for 3 minutes).
- While the pasta cooks, add wine to the bacon pan and deglaze the bottom by stirring with a spoon, scraping up any bits that have stuck to the pan. Those are going to be delicious.
- Drain pasta and reserve 1 cup of cooking water. Add your hot pasta to the bacon pan.
- Pour in frozen spinach (no need to thaw because it’ll thaw quickly and you don’t want to over cook). Stir gently.
- Sprinkle with salt, pepper and oil (plus Parmesan cheese if using) and serve.
