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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I made this last night for dinner. The key is to cook it in a very big pot this way it doesn’t turn to mush. It was delicious. I had my mom and her boyfriend over for dinner. It really made a lot. I still had left overs, so I sent a big container to my son’s and I just had some more as a quick snack this morning. It is even more delicious today! I will make this again!
Made this tonight for dinner. I came back here to read comments, hoping someone else had the same problem as me, which was way too watery! But since I found no one complaining about that, I thought back to how I measured the water and realized instead of 4 1/2 cups, I doubled that! Duh! What can I say? Kids running around, fussy baby! I ladled a lot of it out prior to serving, but I have to say, even though I flooded it, it had a great flavor. I’ll definitely make this again – and this time with the correct amount of water! Lol
Can’t wait to try this recipe. One question though, wouldn’t the pasta become soggy if you put it in before the water is boiling? Thanks!
Not at all!
I cannot say enough good things about this one. It is now my go to dinner when I can’t figure out what I am hungry for. Have used cherry tomatoes,artichoke hearts, asparagus, squash, zuccini, and any other veggie u can think of…..JUST LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OKAY, EVERYONE! THIS ONE IS A MUST…. SIMPLE AND DELICIOUS = SIMPLY DELICIOUS!!! ALL FOUR BOYS AND HUBBY LOVED IT. MUST TRY!
Made this tonight..picked up all the fresh ingredients and it was fantastic for such a quick cooking meal. The only thing I did different was add two chicken bouillon cubes.. Will definitely make again!!
I did not heed the clear warnings in the comments and made this with quinoa pasta. It ended up a thick yellow sludge! Those of you who want to use rice or quinoa pasta, don’t even try it! Those just barely give the illusion of being pasta shaped and are eager to become glue. It was a tasty sludge, though.
Love the flavors of this pasta have made twice first time came out perfect last two there was too much water!? Can’t think of what I am doing wrong? Should I do 3 cups instead? May sound like a silly question but I’m new to the cooking game!
I’m not sure what happened the last time but please feel free to reduce the amount of liquid as needed.
Made this tonight! YES! SO SO good!!! VERY VERY good!!! I topped mine with a little mozzarella! DELISH!!
I just made this so there is definitely a difference when using whole grain pasta- DO NOT RECOMMEND. I also did 2 other things that destroyed the meal – used the larger dutch oven (I think it’s 5 plus qts) AND had the heat on too high. Flavor was ok, but my goodness was this a claggy, gummy gooey mess. Will most definitely try this again and hopefully it will work better next time!
This looks amazing! I will be adding this to my recipe box! Yummo!
Hi – we made this for supper tonight (substituted whole wheat pasta) – it was awesome. Great recipe!
Oh. My. Gosh. I can’t rave about this enough. So easy, SO good. This is going into my regular rotation and i’m telling everyone about it.
Loved the recipe! I added mushrooms and cooked everything in chicken broth of instead of water.
I am a home of 2 so 6 servings is quite a lot, can I simply cut the recipe in half to make a smaller serving size?
Yes, of course!
This is aaaammazing!! I used chorizo as its all I had in the house. This will definitely be a regular meal in our household… Thankyou!!
Is it possible to switch out the spaghetti with bowtie pasta? I love bowtie pasta and sausage together!
I honestly can’t say for sure but I do worry that the bowtie pasta may be too “wide” of a pasta for this kind of one pot meal.
I think its odd that people find a recipe,love it, then proceed to destroy it! I try them as is the first time.The follow up I may change.Its a great meal
Made this tonight with chorizo sausage…it was amazing! Love it! Love it! Love it! And I love that there’s only one dirty pot! Can’t wait to try out your other recipes!
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