Monday, March 12, 2012

Pasta sauce with olives and spinach

This is a recipe I made up based on the available things in my fridge a while ago and we all loved it, especially my kids, who love olives !! When I cook, I don't have a habit to  measure and everything is "on eye" basis.So, here is aprox measurements of everything, just to make it easy for all of you there willing to try my recipes :)

Pasta sauce with olives and spinach

Ingredients:

1 med size onion
5 big garlic gloves chopped fine
3Tbsp olive oil
6 crapes
3 cup canned tomatoes or a tomato based pasta sauce
1 cup chopped fresh spinach
1/2 cup black olives cut in half
1/3 cup milk ( you can use non fat or 2% as per your taste)
1Tbsp oregano
1/2 Tbsp basil
salt

 Heat oil in a pan, add garlic and onion. Cook on a med flame for about 4-5 mins. Next add crapes, tomatoes and spinach.Cook until it starts to boil and add the herbs and salt. Pour the milk and mix well. Cook again for about 5 mins, add the olives and turn the heat off.  Check the seasoning. As per your taste you can add more oregano or basil.
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TIPS:
In case you are not found of garlic reduce it to 2 gloves.
You can try making the sauce with 2 tbsp non fat or reduced fat cream cheese and skip the milk. Beat the cream cheese with fork  and mix well with little ( aprox 1/2 cup ) of the sauce that is cooking on the stove. .Add it to the pot and cook for some time.

Enjoy!


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