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Syn Free Quick Creamy Pasta

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This Syn Free Quick Creamy Pasta is perfect for an easy lunch or dinner and combines just a few ingredients for a tasty flavoursome dish.

quick creamy pasta in a yellow bowl with fork and a side serving of mixed greens

Occasionally I just want a quick simple meal that I can put together in minutes for days like to today when I’m super busy and rushing around.

There is nothing worse than being super hungry and having nothing prepared and the last thing you want is to be standing in the kitchen chopping up loads of ingredients for a meal, as chances are you will just grab something unhealthy a convenient instead.

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This Quick Creamy Pasta is one of my go-to lunchtime meals when I’m having one of those days. I can quickly combine the ingredients for the sauce while the pasta cooks and so it really only takes the time for the pasta to cook. Can’t complain there can you?

Making a syn free creamy sauce like in this Quick Creamy Pasta means using some quark, which is not to everyone’s taste, but I find combining it with the few other ingredients as in this recipe, takes away some of that sour taste and adds lots of yummy flavour, while saving all my syns and healthy extra’s to be used elsewhere in the day.

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As much as I love proper cheese, sometimes I want to use my healthy extra A choice on something else, so when I fancy creamy without the syns this is perfect.

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How can I add a 1/3 speed foods to this Syn Free Quick Creamy Pasta?

I like to serve with a just a simple mixed green salad and baby cucumbers, as it’s nice and quick, but you could add some vegetables into the pasta too if you prefer.

What Kitchen Items do I need to make this Syn Free Quick Creamy Pasta?

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Syn Free Quick Creamy Pasta

Syn Free Quick Creamy Pasta

Yield: 1
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes

This Syn Free Quick Creamy Pasta is perfect for an easy lunch or dinner and combines just a few ingredients for a tasty flavoursome dish.

Ingredients

  • 75g/2.5oz of fusilli pasta, uncooked
  • 2 slices of ham, chopped
  • 2 tbs of quark
  • 1/2 tsp of onion powder
  • 1/2 tsp of garlic powder
  • 1 tsp of dried parsley
  • 1 egg yolk
  • salt and black pepper to season
  • reserve 3 tbs of pasta water

Instructions

  1. Add the pasta to a saucepan of boiling hot salted water and cook till al dente
  2. While pasta it cooking, add the quark, egg yolk, onion powder, garlic powder and dried parsley to a bowl and mix to combine.
  3. Once pasta is cooked, drain (reserving 3 tbs of pasta water
  4. Stir in the ham to the pasta
  5. Add the reserved pasta water into the sauce and whisk to combine.
  6. Add the sauce into the pasta and stir continuously on a very low heat till creamy
  7. Season as needed with salt and black pepper

Notes

This recipe is Slimming World and Weight Watchers friendly

  • Extra Easy - Syn Free per serving
  • WW Smart Points - 10 per serving

optional: add some grated parmesan as part of your HEa

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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 1 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 390Total Fat: 7.1gSaturated Fat: 2.3gCholesterol: 199mgSodium: 490mgCarbohydrates: 56.7gFiber: 2.9gSugar: 3.3gProtein: 15g
© Shevy (Slimming Eats)
Cuisine: American / Category: Lunch
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Comments

  2. Lesley

    This sounds so simple and looks so delicious . Going to try this one over the weekend 🙂

  3. Anonymous

    Made this for lunch and it was a huge hit, and so easy and quick to make, missed out the salad leaves because I never had any and it was still lovely. Thank you for this easy recipe.

  4. Emily C Matthews

    Thanks for the recipe. I tried it last night and my hubby loved it. I am going to try adding courgette next time just to bulk it up. I have the leftovers for lunch with a mixed salad :o)

  9. Shevy (Slimming Eats)

    Hi Jennifer – if you look on the recipe box of all my recipes, it gives the servings (yield) on there. This recipe serves 1.

  10. Peggy

    This is amazing! I had part of an onion that was begging in the refrigerator, so I chopped it fine and added it, I zapped some frozen broccoli to go with it. I also had an apple I sliced up for dessert, and it was the perfect, quick, complete meal for me.

  11. Joanne

    Hi I haven’t made this but do instead of quark do u think u could use low fat Philadelphia and count the sins, I don’t like sound of quark as it is quite sour, tia

  12. Siobhan (Slimming Eats)

    yep you totally can, I am not a lover of quark either, but in this dish you don’t notice.

  13. Chris

    Made this today but used reduced fat creme fraiche as that was all I had, another lovely dish, so quick and easy and will definitely be using again

  14. Hannah

    I just made this with a couple of modifications, i live in Mexico and can’t get quark so I used fat free cottage cheese. Also I am pescetarian so added tuna and an orange pepper.
    It was DELICIOUS! Really helped me to not get bored of my quarantine food!
    Thanks!

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