Bacon and Spinach Pasta with Parmesan

Comments & Personal Notes

Cut the bacon across the strips into one-inch pieces. Sauté the bacon in a large skillet until it is brown and crispy (no extra fat needed). Remove the browned bacon to a bowl with a slotted spoon. Carefully pour the fat off into a separate bowl, leaving about one tablespoon in the skillet.
2. While the bacon cooks, dice the onion. Once the bacon is removed and the fat is drained from the skillet, add the diced onions and sauté until they are soft and transparent. Allow the moisture from the onions to dissolve some of the browned bits off of the bottom of the skillet.
3. Add two cups of chicken broth to the skillet and dissolve off any remaining browned bits of bacon drippings from the bottom of the skillet.
4. Finally, add the uncooked pasta to the skillet, place a lid on top, and let the skillet come to a boil over high heat. Once it reaches a boil, give it a quick stir, turn the heat down to low, and let simmer for 10 minutes with the lid in place. Give the skillet a stir to loosen the pasta from the bottom every few minutes or so, replacing the lid quickly each time. After 10 minutes the pasta should be tender and most of the broth absorbed. There should be a little bit of thick, saucy broth remaining in the bottom of the skillet.
5. Add the fresh spinach to the skillet and stir until it has wilted into the pasta. Turn off the heat, add the cooked bacon back to the skillet, sprinkle the Parmesan over top, stir to combine, and then serve.

Comment from jennie boyer — posted over 6 years ago

This was delicious and simple! Definitely will make again.

Comment from Faxy — posted over 6 years ago

Great recipe. Everyone loved it. Needs extra salt if your broth doesn't contain any or is low salt. My family wanted more bacon in it so I've updated that as well.

Comment from djwolf425 — posted over 6 years ago

This was a big hit at our home- even my pickiest eater rated it a 5 out of 5!

Comment from mkmoore318 — posted over 6 years ago

Delicious the first day. Doesn't reheat as well as some other meals.

Comment from Liz21 — posted about 6 years ago

Add can of chicken for a whole meal

Comment from JEftink — posted over 5 years ago

Would be even more delicious by adding some roasted butternut squash. Also I had a bit of cream cheese leftover and threw that in. Yum

Comment from Vicki lowe — posted over 3 years ago

We loved it! My son ate all his spinach and finished his dinner, which isn’t the norm. It’s a keeper!

Comment from knofelshop — posted over 2 years ago

We all agreed that while good, it needs some doctoring up. It's just too dry. Even adding an additional cup of chicken broth, before we had it eaten it had soaked it all up and was too dry. We felt like the addition of some butter and milk could improve it. Otherwise, quick, easy and not bad.

Comment from Conniemsee — posted about 1 year ago

I added a couple cloves of finely diced garlic just before the onions finished and added the broth after they were fragrant. I had to add some water, since I was out of broth, and cook about 5 minutes longer to fully cook my bucatini pasta.

Comment from jsredders — posted 2 months ago