Easy Creamy Pasta
Ingredients
- 500g dried pasta of your choice
- 300g frozen peas
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 6 slices thick cut bacon (sliced into 1 cm pieces)
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225g EasiYo Greek Style Unsweetened yogurt
- 65g Parmesan cheese (grated)
- 20g Parmesan cheese (grated) for serving
- Juice of one lemon
- Salt and ground pepper to taste.
- Fresh chive or parsley, chopped.
Option to add broccoli or corn or mixed frozen vegetables in place of peas.
Method
- Bring a large pot of salted water to the boil. Add pasta and cook to packet instructions.
- Add the frozen peas (or alternative vegetables) and continue cooking until the pasta is cooked (al dente) but not mushy.
- Reserve about 120mL of boiling pasta water, then drain pasta and peas and stir though a drizzle of olive oil.
- Heat olive oil over medium heat then add bacon pieces and cook, stirring occasionally until the bacon is crisp and the fat is released.
- Remove the pan from the heat and add the drained pasta and peas. Add the yogurt, parmesan and half of the reserved pasta water. Toss well.
- If the sauce seems a bit thick, add a little more of the reserved pasta water. Taste the sauce and season with more salt/pepper to taste. Squeeze the lemon over the pasta and serve sprinkled with the chopped herbs and parmesan cheese.