Creamy bacon florentine pasta with a pound of bacon! Florentine sauce has sauteed onions, garlic and fresh spinach!
Course Main Course
Cuisine Italian
Keyword butter, cheddar biscuits, cheese, bisquick, what to eat, how to make, cheese biscuits, red lobster, garlic herb,, cream sauce, easy dinner, florentine sauce, parmesan cheese, pasta, spaghetti
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 30 minutesminutes
Servings 5people
Calories
Ingredients
8ozthin spaghetti
1 tablespoonolive oil
1/2cuponionsdiced
1tablespoongarlicminced
2tablespoonsbutter
3 tablespoonsall-purpose flour
1 ½cups chicken broth
1 ½cupswhole milk
1/2cupparmesan cheese (can do half parmesan, half mozzarella)shredded
1lbbacon cooked to a crisp, and crumbled
se salt & black pepperto taste
5 oz.fresh spinachchopped
Instructions
Cook pasta according to package until al dente. Drain & set aside.
In a large deep skillet, heat olive oil.
Add onions and saute until tender.
Add garlic and saute until fragrant.
Add butter and stir until melted.
Sprinkle in flour and cook until flour is golden, about 2-3 minutes.
Slowly pour in chicken broth and milk.
Let simmer, stirring often until sauce has thickened enough to lightly coat the back of a spoon.
Stir in parmasan cheese.
Taste and add salt and black pepper to bring out the taste.
Add the spinach, and simmer until spinach has wilted
Stir in noodles.
Plate and sprinkle on the bacon.
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Notes
You can mix the bacon in the main pot if you'd like. I prefer to keep it seperate so that it stays crunchy if I have left-overs.Add-ins: capers, tomatoes, green onions, mushrooms or chicken