Fall for me is all about comfort food. But it’s so hard to make low fat fall recipes, without all the richness that makes comfort food so delicious! That’s why it’s so hard for me to find good recipes, that bring that comfort to our table without the calories that comes with them!
I’ve always felt guilty about cooking pasta, let alone adding cheese to it! You know at our home, we always look for healthy recipes not compromising on the flavor.
I experimented, since hubby and son love pasta, and served this dish last week! A one-pot pasta bake, which will give you 4 servings or more with only 450 calories for a large serving portion! If you still need a pasta fix after serving this, then you may want to check out some of the best pasta in jacksonville or see if your local restaurants have it on the menu, so you are filling yourself with the food that delights you.
In Just 30 minutes you can make this healthy, low fat comfort food, that will make everybody happy! All in one pot!
Are you ready?
Low Fat Cheesy Spinach Pasta Bake
Ingredients:
1 Tbsp, Olive Oil
1 Cup Diced Onions
3 Cloves of Garlic Minced
1 Pound 90% lean ground beef
Salt and Pepper to Taste
1 Cup of Tomato Sauce
2 cups of uncooked whole grain penne pasta
5 oz of Baby Spinach
1/2 shredded part-skim mozzarella
Preparation:
Step 1
Boil Spinach with a pinch salt in the water
Step 2
Boil water and cook penne when water is boiling for 9 minutes
Step 3
Sautee onion until soft, add ground beef, garlic, salt, pepper and cook until brown and add tomato sauce.
Step 4
Drain pasta and spinach
Pre-heat the oven to 375F.
Step 5
In one pot mix tomato sauce, penne and ground beef drained. Add spinach and sprinkle cheese on top and bake for 15 minutes or until cheese is melted.
This dish will sure make your family happy without adding all the calories that comfort food can sometimes bring!
This is comfort, flavor and amazing ingredients all in one pot, in one easy guilty free dish, that will make your family ask for more!
What is your favorite low fat fall dinner? I can’t wait to hear from you! Give us a Trendy Shout!
My family loves spaghetti so much but half of them has high cholesterol. This recipe you shared will be a great one for my family. Thank you.
How tasty. It’s worth trying and I’m going to cook it for my family. Can’t wait to hear their feedbacks. Thanks a lot for sharing such a great recipe.
It’s a amazing idea when adding some cheese on top the pasta. It must taste so much delicious. Thanks for sharing your recipe! I’m gonna make some for my family this weekend. They really love pasta and cheese!
I’m so trying this recipe. My son loves pasta so he will really enjoy this one and it is healthy so yay!
This looks very delicious, I think my kids would love this!
That recipe sure looks tasty! Even better that it’s low fat. I’ve been eating more soups in the last few weeks. There’re so many yummy recipes.
This dish looks great. Love that it’s low fat!
This has all of my husbands favorite fixings! Pasta, Red Sauce and CHEESE!
That looks absolutely scrumptious and I’m certain it was. I use spinach in a lot of dishes but I’ve never thought to add it to my pasta recipes. I can’t wait to try your recipe.
Omg can we say yum?!?! Pasta anything is always a hit in our house. I will have to try your recipe.
Yummy! Never thought of creating a spinach pasta when in fact I love spinach and we all love pasta over here. Can’t wait to try your recipe.
oh my goodness! this looks so good and gooey. i like how the spinach was added to make it a little bit healthier!
that looks yummy, I think my tummy would be very happy with that dish. I think I’ll have to try this and the best part is it looks easy to make : )
This sounds so delicious! I love a one pot meal and am going to add this to my meal plan.
I have never used spinach in any baked pasta. This looks pretty amazing. I am going to definitely give this recipe a try.
I just happen to have all the ingredients to make this and needed an idea for dinner! I love pasta, spinach and cheese!
I love, love the spinach in this. This dish looks like it would please the whole family!
This looks and sounds so good! I would love to try this out this week for dinner!
Yummy, this looks delicious. I just wish that my family would eat the spinach. Other than that they would enjoy this recipe. I also like that it doesn’t dirty up a ton of dishes too.
This is the kind of meal my kids and husband loves. We all love spinach in a pasta too.
Oh my goodness! This would be great for my cheat day! I would love this for sure. I’ll have to try this.
This looks so good and I love that this is cheesy, yet low fat. I can’t wait to give your recipe a try.
oh yum! This looks so good and easy too, perfect for busy weeknight meals!
This looks absolutely delicious! I like how you added spinach to give it color and make it healthier! 🙂 Going to have to try this!
This looks delicious! I’m adding it to my menu plan 🙂
This looks like the absolute perfect weeknight meal. We love pasta and I always hide some veggies in there so I can’t wait to try this out!
When a meal is a one pot wonder with cheese, there is nothing to complain about. Cheese and fewer dishes to wash are a wonderful combination.
This is a recipe that I could get on board with. I love pasta dishes, and ones with spinach are the best. That’s what I am talking about!
This looks so incredibly DELISH and I love that it is low fat! So I get to indulge minus the guilt!
This looks really good. I love having pastas and so does my family. I’m always looking for new ways to have pasta. I’ll be giving this a try.
This is a perfect weeknight meal for us. I love that it is a one pot recipe. I can not wait to try it.
I ma always looking for one pot recipes. This looks like a meal my family will love.
This dish looks so delicious and easy to make. I will have to get the ingredients I need to make this on the weekend.
This looks delicious and easy to make. Might be perfect for our weekly Friday “family dinner”.
I love one pot dishes like this. I made a lot of them when our dishwasher wasn’t working and now that we have a working dishwasher I still like them a lot.
My boys and I all have to be suckered into our veggies, and I love being suckered into spinach best of all because it’s so good for you. And you can’t sucker me better than with cheese.
That looks delicious and like it would take no time at all to prepare!! I can’t wait to make it for my family! I love that it contains spinach!
All of that cheese and still low fat?! I am loving this pasta dish so much.
Spinach in pasta is one of my all time favorites. This looks so good.
This looks like a great dish.
We have been working on lowering our sugar and eating smarter.
Oh my goodness, now this looks amazing. I love any pasta meal made with cheese and cheese and more cheese, LOL
We usually have pasta once a week. I need to give this Cheesy Pasta Bake a try! Looks delicious and I love how it’s low in fat!
This looks like a dish that is as healthy as it is delicious. I cannot wait to give this a try. My husband just asked me what I wanted for dinner! Guess what we are having?!
Low Fat and Easy? Count me in! I’m always looking for quick and easy recipes.
Mmmm, this looks so amazing. I love that it is low fat and still cheesy! Yum.