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🍽️ Fusilli with creamy spinach-parsley sauce
485 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- Salt Pinch
- Spinach 400 g
- Parsley, fresh 50 g
- Onions, yellow 1 pc.
- Lemons 1 pc.
- Fusilli 500 g
- Hazelnuts, whole 2 tbsp
- Oil 2 tbsp
- Cream cheese, plain 100 g
- Pepper, black ground Pinch
Instructions
- 1. Bring five liters of water with salt to a boil in a large pot.
- 2. Wash the spinach thoroughly and let it drain well.
- 3. Wash the parsley, shake it dry, and remove the thick stems.
- 4. Peel the onion, halve it, and cut it into fine cubes.
- 5. Wash the lemon, halve it, and squeeze out the juice.
- 6. Cook the fusilli pasta in the boiling salted water for ten minutes until al dente.
- 7. Heat a pan over medium heat.
- 8. Roast the hazelnuts in the dry pan for two minutes.
- 9. Remove the hazelnuts from the pan and chop them coarsely.
- 10. Heat the pan again with a little oil.
- 11. Sauté the onion cubes for one minute.
- 12. Add the spinach to the pan and let it wilt for three minutes.
- 13. Remove about one-third of the spinach from the pan and set it aside.
- 14. Add three ladles (approx. 300 ml) of the pasta cooking water to the pan.
- 15. Let the liquid come to a brief boil.
- 16. Remove the pan from the heat.
- 17. Add the parsley and the cream cheese to the pan.
- 18. Blend the mixture until smooth.
- 19. Season the sauce with the lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
- 20. Drain the fusilli in a colander.
- 21. Add the drained pasta to the sauce in the pan.
- 22. Add the reserved spinach as well.
- 23. Mix everything well until the pasta is evenly coated.
- 24. Plate the pasta.
- 25. Sprinkle the dish with the chopped hazelnuts.
- 26. Serve the fusilli immediately and enjoy your meal.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 485
- Protein: 15 g · Fett/Fat: 18 g · Carbs: 66 g