Healthy Green Pasta

So, if you're anything like me, you like to enjoy yourself but not really pay for it... Enter this yummy "pasta" dish that tricks you into thinking you're indulging when in reality, you're filling up on vegetables (and other healthy things)! As if that weren't enough of an incentive, its QUICK and EASY! 

Let's get to it. To serve yourself and one other cutie, you're going to need:

• A bag of baby spinach
• Some healthy "pasta" - I used a gluten-free quinoa pasta, but brown rice pasta is yummy, too!
• Olive oil
• Fresh Garlic
• Parmesean

First up, drizzle some olive oil in a big sauté pan and crush 2-3 garlic cloves (depending on how garlic-y you like your food). Toss the garlic into the oil and then turn the heat on. Keep it on a medium-low heat and make sure it doesn't burn! Just get the garlic to infuse into the oil - when you start to smell the garlic like A LOT, then you're about a minute away from being done!

While the garlic oil is going, fill up a sauce pan with water and get it to a rolling boil. (The quinoa pasta cooks just like regular pasta, you've probs done this before...)

When the pasta is done, drain it and put it back in the pot. You may have to drizzle in a teeny bit of olive oil so the noodles don't become one giant block.

Back to the garlic oil - When the oil is nice and permeated, take out the garlic cloves. You can toss 'em or crush them up even more and throw them into the pasta. You're (or your date's) call! When the garlic is out of the pan, toss in the whole bag of spinach! Yes, the whole bag. It will wilt down, I swear!

Toss it like you would a salad. Add a sprinkle of salt and pepper, and keep tossing. I like it fairly wilted, but still with a little crunch. Just keep an eye on it and take it off the heat when it's at the consistency you like. Here's what mine looked like when it was done...

Toss the spinach into your pasta and mix it up! Add in your fresh parm, maybe squeeze in some lemon juice, taste for seasoning and serve up!

**FYI The sautéed garlic spinach makes an excellent side dish to just about anything!

The dish is soooo yummy and super easy to whip up! The quinoa pasta and parm give it a wonderful nutty flavor and the garlic just really takes it to that next level! And the best part is, you can eat as much as you like, and you're still just eating quinoa and spinach!! Like, honestly, does it get better than that?! Throw this dish into your routine and you can keep that hot summer bod well past August :)

Happy cooking!

xo, 

The Ging Twins