Dig into a plate of this delicious Syn Free Creamy Garlic Pasta – a super quick and easy one pot past dish that the whole family will love.
Simple ingredients, less than 20 minutes and you have a delicious syn free creamy garlic pasta which you will want to make again and again.
If you are like me, then you love creamy pasta sauces, but not just any pasta sauce, creamy is always at the top of my list as it always feels so luxurious and dreamy.
Usually, anything creamy, means high syns and most of us don’t like to use all our syns on a meal, especially if we like that little treat later on in the day.
This sauce is delicious, garlicky and creamy and is completely SYN FREE when using your healthy extra A choice – meaning you can enjoy this AND that bit of chocolate later. Perfect!!
When I first created this recipe I made the sauce separately and added in the cooked pasta at the end. But recently I’ve been preferring one-pot pasta dishes. Cooking the pasta in the sauce, means the starch that gets released into the water, helps the sauce to become velvety and thick and of course one pot, means less washing up afterwards, which is always a plus in my book.
This recipe has quite a bit of garlic added to it – it is a creamy garlic pasta after all. Garlic has such a lovely sweet flavour when it’s cooked, so it’s important to ensure you don’t try to rush that part of the recipe, there is nothing worse than raw or burnt garlic in a recipe. Using spray oil means you have to be really careful with the heat under your pan. Don’t be tempted to turn up the heat to try and cook it quickly, as it just won’t work.
Once I fry my onions and garlic a little in the spray oil to infuse the flavour, I always then add a little water. It’s a great little trick, that really helps to soften the onions and garlic without drying them out and burning. You can use this trick for all kinds of vegetables – kale, mushrooms etc. If you want more flavour, you can even use a little bit of stock instead of the water. A trick I use here with my Sauteed Garlic Mushrooms.
If you love the convenience of One-Pot dishes check out some of these other recipes:
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- Spicy Prawn and Vegetable Risotto
- Beef and Six Bean Chilli
- Mushroom Risotto
- One Pot Cheeseburger Pasta
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How can I add a 1/3 speed foods to this Syn Free Creamy Garlic Pasta?
This is best paired up with a mixed salad, pick any salad vegetables of your choosing, baby greens, cucumber etc. Another option is to add some mushrooms, leeks or asparagus into the pasta sauce – delicious!!
TO MAKE THIS DELICIOUS SYN FREE ONE POT CREAMY GARLIC PASTA , YOU WILL NEED THE FOLLOWING KITCHEN ITEMS:
- Non Stick Frying Pan
- Kitchen Scales
- Measuring Cups
- Measuring Spoons
- Julienne peeler
- Wooden Spoon
- Santoku Knife (perfect knife for chopping veg)
- Chopping Board
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Syn Free One Pot Creamy Garlic Pasta | Slimming World
Prep
Cook
Total
Yield 2 servings
This recipe is vegetarian, Slimming World and Weight Watchers friendly
- Extra Easy - 1 HEa per serving
- Green/Vegetarian - 1 HEa per serving
- WW Smart Points - 13 per serving
Ingredients
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 4-6 cloves of garlic, crushed
- 160g/5.6oz of uncooked pasta
- 2.5 cups (600ml) of chicken or vegetable stock
- 4 laughing cow light (1 HEa)
- 30g/1oz parmesan
- salt and black pepper
- cooking oil
- fresh chopped parsley
Instructions
- Spray a deep frying pan over a medium-high heat with spray oil.
- Add the onion and fry for a minute until translucent.
- Add in the garlic and fry just to infuse flavour and then add in a little bit of the stock and continue to fry for a few mins until onions are softened. If the pan dryies out too much add a little more stock.
- Add the remaining stock and laughing cow and stir for about 1 minute until melted. Then add in the pasta
- Bring to a boil then reduce heat and allow to gently bubble for about 10-12 mins until pasta is cooked and sauce is creamy. (The key is to let the stock reduce down as the pasta cooks, and become lovely and velvety). If the stock reduces down too much and pasta is still slightly under, just add in a little water.
- Stir in the parmesan till melted, reserving a little for sprinkle on top.
- Season with salt and black pepper to taste
- Sprinkle with fresh chopped parsley.
- Enjoy!!
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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 serving
Amount Per Serving | ||
|---|---|---|
Calories 495 | ||
% Daily Value | ||
Total Fat 8.9 g | 14% | |
Saturated Fat 5.1 g | 26% | |
Cholesterol 21 mg | 7% | |
Sodium 736 mg | 31% | |
Total Carbohydrates 72.9 g | 24% | |
Dietary Fiber 7.6 g | 30% | |
Sugars 3.5 g | ||
Protein 24.4 g | 49% | |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Creamy Garlic Pasta (original version) | Slimming World
Prep
Cook
Total
Yield 2 servings
This recipe is gluten free, vegetarian, Slimming World or Weight Watchers friendly
- Extra Easy - 1 HEa per serving
- Green - 1 HEa per serving
- WW Smart Points - 13
Ingredients
- 170g/6oz of spaghetti (can use gluten free)
- 1 shallot, finely chopped
- 4-6 small cloves of fresh garlic crushed (if using lazy garlic, half the amount)
- 4 laughing cow lights (1xHEa)
- 30g/1oz of parmesan (1xHEa)
- 1.5 cups (300ml) of chicken or vegetable stock/broth
- salt and black pepper
- Spray oil
- Freshly chopped Italian parsley
Instructions
- Spray a frying pan over a medium-high heat with spray oil.
- Add the onion and fry till softened
- Add the garlic and fry for another 5 min (add a little bit of the stock to prevent from sticking it also helps to soften the garlic for that sweet garlicky taste)
- Season with some salt and black pepper.
- Reduce heat to medium
- Add the remaining stock, and laughing cow and keep whisking until laughing cow is melted, allow to simmer until the sauce reduces down and thickens, approx. 15 mins
- While the sauce simmers, Add the pasta to a saucepan of boiling hot water and cook till al dente, drain.
- Stir the pasta into the sauce.
- Top with some freshly chopped Italian parsley and the parmesan and serve immediately with a side salad.Enjoy!!
Notes
A healthy extra serving of laughing cow may vary depending on where you are i.e. US/UK/Canada so be sure to check the one you use and adjust accordingly.
I like a strong garlic flavour when I make this. If you are cooking the garlic enough. It should be a sweet garlicky flavour which is perfect. But if you don't like your garlic flavour too strong I recommended reducing the amount of garlic used.
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Hi Siobhan, I’ve just made this for lunch, adding a few chunks of boiled ham, and it was delicious. Even hubby was impressed with it and agreed this is one we will be having again. Can highly recommend this recipe. Thank you x
Can this be ate cold?
personally I prefer it eaten once cooked. 🙂
I’ve made this recipe a few times now and each time I’ve eaten it I always forget I’m eating a slimming world friendly recipe, it really does taste like it’s straight out of an Italian restaurant kitchen!! We’ve added Chicken a couple of times too & although it’s fantastic without, being meat & poultry lovers it’s awesome With it!!
Made this and added some broccoli to bulk up my speed foods, it was absolutely amazing, thanks so much for this recipe!
Just made this for tea and it was delicious! Really filling and tasty.
Cooked this sauce up but then added cooked salmon and rice. Omg it was amazing! My husband loved it too and commented how it didn’t taste even remotely ‘diet’ like. Will definitely be making again! Yum!
Thanks for the lovely comment Hannah – so glad you enjoyed it.
Oh my word! This is amazing. I added spinach and courgettes and some roasted tomatoes, so delicious. I accidentally ate the two servings though so will need to sun the cheese but it’s definitley worth it! Thank you for your wonderful recipe.
Just made this and it’s awesome. Told my mum how garlicky it is and she’s going to try it too as she loves garlic. I added a bag of steamed veg to the sauce for my speed food
Just tried this after seeing it posted on Instagram by a slimmer. It is absolutely delicious. We added prawns and cherry tomatoes. Next time I will add chilli flakes.
This dish is absolutely gorgeous! Thank you! I was craving something warm and satisfying and this feels like a really naughty dish – not a diet one! I didn’t have any laughing cow cheese so I used light cheddar instead and it’s still beautiful!
Do you know if you can re-heat this the next day? Sorry I’m not a good cook and am not used to working with soft cheese!
it’s best eaten once cooked, but it can be reheated, you just may need to add a little stock to prevent it going too dry.
So disappointed this isn’t actually a one pot. Has anyone modified it so that it is? Thanks 🙂
It is a one pot, it’s been converted. You are looking at the wrong box
Can this be frozen
I personally prefer to eat this once cooked, but all ingredients are fine for freezing.
This is gorgeous thank you so much, clean plates all around, I added smoked haddock to it, this is definitely going on my keeper list
Hi Shevy,can this be made with low fat Quark instead of the low fat laughing cow please ? Kind regards Johanne
I personally wouldn’t use Quark as it is sour tasting and not creamy, plus it has a tendency to split in hot dishes.
made this dish last night and loved it ,it was sooo creamy .will be making it again thanks for sharing
Hi there, this looks tasty and I’m going to try it this week, however I’m confused how you are using parmesan and laughing cow and its syn free? I get one HEA can be the laughing cow but it doesn’t look like the parmesan has been account for?
Omg this was so tasty are you sure I can’t eat this tasted so creamy ❤️
the recipe serves 2 people, contains 2 healthy extra (laughing cow and the parmesan), so is 1 healthy extra per serving
Just made this and the whole family loved it!
Absolutely loved this recipe. I served it with some previously cooked salmon broken up over the top and added button mushrooms and leeks for speed veg. I give it five stars and will definitely be making this as a regular family favourite.
Just made this tonight for dinner, loved it I added some chicken to it although I think it would be equally as nice without, no way you could tell that was a syn free dish, a new favourite in my house
I made this for dinner tonight with chicken and broccoli and it was absolutely gorgeous. My partner is such a fussy eater and his only complaint was that I didn’t make more. Will definitely make this again. Thank you so much for sharing