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Made this last night on a whim and it was delish. Thank you for the great recipes!
Anne Warren
This recipe is sponsored by DeLallo
ALERT ALERT ALERT! Only a small amount of time and a few ingredients stand between you and a skillet full of creamy, garlicky, flavorful, romantic, and dangerously good pasta. Tender sun-dried tomatoes, maybe some spinach, creamy sauce, bouncy noodles, and a heavy dusting of Parmesan. This is an urgent matter. I think you understand.
A few important things for your review before you take a swim in this creamy, luscious pan of pasta:
First of all, can you ever go wrong with garlic, white wine, and cream in a sauce? Hint: no. It’s just a cheat code for greatness. It makes short ingredient lists everywhere very, very happy.
Secondly, spirali is the most fun pasta shape of all time and I won’t debate with you about this. It’s a skinny little tube, like bucatini, but it’s wound into a tight spiral, so you get a spiraly shape that is very subtly voluminous and airy at the same time. Spring gift to yourself: an order of specialty pasta to make your weeknight cooking into a fun adventure. File under things you say after age 30.
Bringing You a Very Simple Ingredient List
Okay, your star players in this recipe are:
- pasta (spirali, spirali, spirali! it’s too much fun)
- garlic
- white wine
- cream
- sun-dried tomatoes
- Parmesan
And… the rest is kind of up to you. You can throw in a handful of spinach and some sliced chicken sausage if you want. Make it a one-pot meal. If you want some actual chicken in the mix, this recipe has you covered.
Or you can just dive in headfirst.
You’ll Need Delicious, Quality Pasta Here
Truthfully, one of my favorite SOS hacks is keeping versatile, good-quality foods on hand at all times.
DeLallo is the source of many of my favorite items in this category.
Their website is FULL and I mean really FULL of fun made-in-Italy products that can ship right to your door, and we have a large selection of all of these things at our office kitchen since we’ve been working with DeLallo for like, 8 years? Longest standing brand partner on POY because we love them and so do you. ♡
In my home kitchen, however, space is tight, so I have to reduce my stash to just a few of our most beloved favorites:
- rigatoni
- whole wheat orzo
- gnocchi
- tomato sauce
- sun-dried tomatoes
- and now, spirali
Whatever kind of noodle you use, it’s just a fact: pasta in a creamy white wine garlic sauce, speckled with tender bites of sun dried tomatoes and a handful of fresh herbs makes any SOS weeknight just a little less SOS-y and a lot more wonderful.
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Creamy Garlic Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta: FAQs
Good news is this recipe is super customizable! Go ahead and add anything else you want in there – sliced chicken sausages, spinach leaves, peas, etc!
That should work – you’ll just need to add a bit more olive oil to the pan and the dish to bring all the flavors together well.
One of our team members, Jasmine, knows the ins and outs of wine pairings. She recommends a white wine from Italy, like a Pinot Grigio, Soave, Gavi, or Verdicchio here. 🤓
Source notes: The idea for this recipe came from my friend Angela! She texted me about it one night after she made it, with a photo, and it was my lunch the very next day because, like I said at the beginning, this is an urgent matter.
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Creamy Garlic Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
Description
You are thisclose to enjoying Creamy Garlic Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta! Garlicky spirali noodles and tender sun-dried tomatoes in a creamy, luscious sauce with a heavy dusting of Parmesan cheese.
Ingredients
- 8 ounces DeLallo spirali pasta (okay, you don’t have to use spirali, but it is SO FUN)
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/4 cup DeLallo sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil, sliced or chopped
- about 1/3 cup dry white wine
- 2/3 – 3/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup spinach, chopped
- up to 1/2 cup reserved pasta water
- salt and pepper to taste
- a big bunch of chopped chives or parsley
- parmesan for serving
Instructions
- Cook the pasta: Cook the pasta according to package directions.
- Sauté the good stuff: Heat a skillet over medium heat. Use a little bit of the oil from the sun-dried tomatoes to sauté the garlic and sun-dried tomatoes until soft and fragrant, 2-3 minutes.
- Make the sauce: Add the wine; let it sizzle out and reduce so the flavor gets real good. Add the cream and spinach; bring to a simmer. Season with salt and pepper.
- Finish: Stir in the cooked pasta, adding the reserved pasta water as needed to help coat the noodles in the sauce. Finish with chives and Parmesan and a top-up on your glass of wine. SO GOOD.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Pasta
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: pasta recipe, sun-dried tomatoes, garlic recipe
Thank you to DeLallo for sponsoring this post!
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Absolutely delicious! I substituted the heavy cream with coconut milk & toppped the pasta with your air fryer chicken recipe & garnished with fresh herbs from my garden. Great meal!
My husband’s words: “Who needs Bar La Grassa when you have this?” MMM. It was so good. I omitted the spinach because of my kids but served with roasted garlicky green beans and zucchini. Perfection!
Oh, that is high praise! So glad your family enjoyed it.
Well heck, just stop it! I’m gonna be as big as a house if you keep throwing these horribly Devine recipes at me. Could you please come up with a bummer recipe? Your food is just so darn good. To top it off it’s always easy! There is no way to avoid these recipes. I write them all down so my children will have them when I’m gone. I am 71 and I so appreciate great food that takes no time at all and small amount of clean up!
This has been a huge hit with my whole family. My 12 year old specifically requested it for dinner again last night. I’m featuring my variation on it in my next blog post.
This recipe looked delicious. I did notice there were few flavor packing ingredients but decided to trust the process. Unfortunately, as suspected it had no flavor. I upped the cheese, added red pepper flakes, Italian seasoning, nutritional yeast. These did definitely help. I think if I were to try it again I would cook the noodles in broth and use some of that broth in final dish. That would add more flavor as well. Everyone’s tastes are different and some tweaking is usually needed. Thank you for sharing this recipe. It’s a good base that we cooks can adjust to our own wants and needs.
I’m trying a week of SOS meals and this was our 3rd one. it was good. I felt like it could have used more of everything like sundried tomatoes, more garlic, more spinach. I did use about 3/4 cup heavy cream and it was just enough sauce. We added some chicken for protein. I will make again but will up the spices/flavors.
Creamy garlic sundried tomato pasta looks so delish 😋😋😋😋😋😋
Made this for dinner last night. It was really good!! I added extra garlic, onion powder and parmesan. Served with chicken sausage for the meat lovers.
This is a great weeknight dinner – it comes together very quickly. I added about 1/4 tsp of red pepper flakes when I sauteed the garlic and tomatoes. I also added maybe 1/2 tsp of salt; could have used a little more. Very versatile recipe – a lot you could do with this.
Hello, I am currently making this and the recipe says 8 ounces of pasta but the video clearly shows you adding the whole bag of pasta which is 16 ounces. The rest of the ingredients seem a little off for only 8 ounces of pasta and I don’t see how that will feed four people either.
We love this pasta in my house. We love to use the spiral Goodles noodles for extra protein and when I have the extra time adding some chopped bacon in this makes it truly magical.
Very delicious. Made for my family (6yr, 3.5yrs, 18mos) and everyone had seconds and thirds! Will definitely add to the rotation!
This is so easy and so good! I make it all the time in summer. It’s easy to add any protein without too much extra work too!
Anytime my picky 9 year old asks for “a million more noodles” for seconds, it’s going to be a repeat forever recipe! Bonus is we all love it too! Made it for the 3rd time tonight and added the unexpected cheddar chicken sausage from Trader Joe’s and it was YUM!
So yummy. I used chicken broth and a little white wine vinegar in place of the white wine. Love the texture of the curly pasta. However, I feel the serving size of this recipe needs to be updated. I should have doubled it for my husband and I. It really only serves 2 people and we had very reasonable portions!
Simple and absolutely delicious! I added some red pepper flakes with the garlic and tomatoes for a little spice, and it turned out great!
Fantastic recipe! Super easy and a hit with the whole family (including my 5-year-old, who is hard to please).
This looks great, but I bought the ingredients, and they don’t list spinach 😢. I think you need to revisit the recipe.
Thanks for letting us know, Emily. We’ll get this updated!
Was searching for an SOS, pantry-friendly meal I could get on the table quickly after a long day and this DELIVERED. It came together so quickly and the effort to outcome ratio was *chef’s kiss*. Big hit with my partner as well.
So glad to hear it, Liv!
I made this last night using raditore shaped pasta. It was amazing! What a great recipe; so easy to make and it is delicious. Adding it to the rotation for sure!
Easy but flavorless. This recipe is a good baseline but needs extra add ins, would not make again
This is one of my favorite pasta dishes to make! Super simple and delicious. It’s a staple weeknight recipe.
Such a quick, easy, and delicious meal! Thank you!
So delicious and easy! The second time I made it, I included some broccoli I needed to use up and it was a yummy addition.
This. Was. Amazing!! I was so blown away by how simple it was but how delicious it turned out. Personally I’m not a fan of sun dried tomatoes so I subbed roasted red pepper strips. Everything was phenomenal and my whole family loved it!
Great substitute! So glad you enjoyed it!