Parmesan Spinach Pasta is an easy 1-pot savory vegetarian side dish or main dish.
It uses no-salt chicken broth and a chunky no-salt marinara or other no-salt tomato sauce such as any of the tomato sauce recipes listed on our Low Sodium Condiments page
- 8 oz uncooked Angel Hair pasta, with each piece of pasta broken in half or thirds.
- 3 Tbsp butter
- 2 cups frozen leaf spinach
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 cups no salt chicken broth
- 1½ cup chunky no-salt Marinara or other no-salt chunky tomato sauce (see recipes)
- ½ tsp Mrs Dash Garlic and Herb Seasoning blend
- ⅓ cup shredded Parmesan Cheese
- Heat a large heavy skillet to medium high. Melt butter. Then add garlic and spinach and cook, stirring frequently for about 3 minutes.
- Stir in Mrs Dash Garlic and Herb seasoning, broth, and chunky marinara sauce. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to maintain a simmer. Stir in the uncooked angle hair pasta. Cover and cook 5 minutes, stirring frequently until pasta is tender.
- Stir in Parmesan cheese.
Note that sodium percentages depend on which daily reference you use. 58 mg of sodium per serving implies that this recipe provides:
– 2 % of the U.S. FDA daily reference value for sodium for a 2,000-calorie diet that includes 2,400 mg sodium, or
– 4 % of the American Heart Association recommendation of 1,500 mg sodium per day, or
– 6 % of the Ménière’s diet recommendation of 1,000 mg sodium per day.
(As is the case with all of the recipes on this web site, the nutrition information provided in this recipe is only an estimate based on nutrition information provided on the packaging of each of the ingredients we used in this recipe and/or on a variety of sources on the web. This information should be regarded as an opinion only, with no guarantees that it is accurate. Obviously, the nutritional information will vary depending on the ingredients and quantities that you use.)