One Pot Pasta
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The easiest, most amazing pasta you will ever make. Even the pasta gets cooked right in the pot. How easy is that?!
This is probably by far the easiest pasta dish you will ever make in your entire life. It’s literally a 5-min prep, and then everything gets tossed right in the pan, including the uncooked spaghetti. Let the water come to a boil and that is it.
The hardest part is waiting for the pasta to cook through and having the liquid reduced, which really just takes about 8-10 minutes. Not long at all.
Stir in your freshly grated Parmesan (freshly grated is key here) and top with additional Parm, if desired.
One Pot Pasta
Ingredients
- 1 pound spaghetti
- 1 (12.8-ounce) package smoked andouille sausage, thinly sliced
- 1 large onion, thinly sliced
- 3 cups halved grape tomatoes
- 2 cups fresh basil leaves, loosely packed
- 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 1 cup freshly grated Parmesan
Instructions
- In a large stockpot or Dutch oven over medium high heat, combine spaghetti, sausage, onion, tomatoes, basil, garlic and 4 1/2 cups water; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, until pasta is cooked through and liquid has reduced, about 8-10 minutes.
- Stir in Parmesan.
- Serve immediately.
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Does the onion cook or stay hard?
Yes, the onion is cooked through.
This is a wonderful recipe and I make it at least every couple weeks. I use farmer’s sausage and sometimes brown a fry pay of fresh sliced mushrooms. I never seem to have fresh basil so use 2 TBSP of dried basil and 2 TBSP of dried oregano. Instead of the water I use 5 cups of chicken stock and a 15 oz. can of diced tomatos instead of the cherry tomatos. After the broth comes to a boil and I turn the heat to simmer I add a ouple handfuls of baby spinach. It is scrumptios! Obviously a recipe you can play around with!!!! Thank you!!!
Finally..someone who substituted all those fresh ingredients for “real world pantry” ones..thank you so much for this! I’m going to try this too..but will take several liberties with the basic recipe like you did and substitute spaghetti sauce for half the water..and add italian sausage..mushrooms..green bell peppers..olives..and anything else I can think of. The original recipe looked very boring to me..and had onions in it..which I don’t like in my pasta..so thanks again for your idea. =)
The beauty of this recipe is that it is completely customizable. And as for the “boring” original recipe – you’d really be amazed as to what a few, simple ingredients can do to a one pot meal!
The recipe is delicious and not the least bit boring. It’s so simple I will pass it along to my “non – cooking” collegiate and she’ll have a great, easy, home cooked meal. Thank you!
Thanks for making “boring” ingredients into a delicious pot of goodness. I’ll be trying your recipe next week. Nothing looks boring for me, so thanks for sharing!
That’s the great thing about this recipe…you can substitute pantry items (sun dried tomatoes) or leftovers (cold shrimp!) for the fresh ones.
Spaghetti Sauce is literally anything one uses to sauce spaghetti. If in fact you mean tomato sauce you might say so.
How much salt and pepper do you use? I never know how much to use. Lol…
It’s really “to taste” to fit your preferences. I think I used about 1 teaspoon salt so you could work with 1/2 teaspoon to start.
Looks amazing… Now my challenge is to figure out how to adjust for brown rice pasta.. ( usually requires it to sit of burner after boiling ) # glutenfree
Correction..all I can say…
Al icans ay is your a genius! I’m convinced!!! Nothing like cooking something fast and easy for Sunday lunch.,,it felt I hit a jackpot.
Thank you!!
Yum! I need to get on the one-pot pasta train!
I love one pot meals like this! Such a great recipe to have on hand!
Love the idea of using 1 pot ONLY! More recipes like this please! 🙂
I am so happy that you loved the recipe!
I’ve been dying to try one pot pasta, this looks so good!
Here comes the inevitable question. Do you think I have to adjust anything (say, the water) if I am halving the recipe? Or can I just halve all the ingredients?
Thanks. Looks yummy.
Yes, all ingredients, including the water, should be halved.
What about using dried Basil?how much would I use?
Cindy, the ratio for dry to fresh herbs is typically 1:3.
So would that be a little over half a cup of dried basil
I recommend adding between 1/2 – 1 tsp, to taste.
Sounds nice. Thank you and have a great weekend!
Such a fabulous idea! And I LOVE that first photo. Such gorgeous light!
One pot – love it!! That means there’s like 17 other pots I don’t have to wash, which is you know, typical for most recipes that tend to dirty every dish in the house 🙂 Love one pot meals!
wow,looks very simple and delicious.
It was both. I’ve been raving about it all day.
This looks unbelievably good! I haven’t tried one of these one-pot recipes before. But your addition of the sausage in here is seriously tempting me to. Pinned! : )
do you drain the water when its done cooking or leave it in there?
Sharmane, there really shouldn’t be any liquid left to drain at the end of cooking time.
Yup, i had the same issue. Four and a half cups of water was just too much. I had a delicious soupy noodle mix, over-cooking the noodles didn’t help any. I will try using 2 1/2 or 3 cups next time and see how that goes.
Did you read the instructions? Bring the water to a full boil. Cook UNCOVERED. That allows the water to reduce and cook the pasta. Cook long enough to reduce liquid.
I have made this several times…..PERFECT…..no water left…..if instructions are read…and follow……it will be PERFECT…everytime…
This might be a really silly question but I just made this and there is a lot of liquid left in the pot. I’m not sure what I did wrong. Are you suppose to bring to a boil – uncovered? I brought to a boil covered and then lowered the temp to simmer and uncovered. There was still a lot of water left. Not sure if I should have left it uncovered to boil too? Looks amazing though.
A cover is not needed!