Creamy Leek Pasta


Creamy Leek Pasta- a quick creamy vegetarian pasta dish with leeks, courgettes and peas. Can be syn-free on Slimming World if you use Quark. Dinner ready in 20 minutes.

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It's been a while since we had anything new for our Meat Free Monday dinner, so this Vegetarian Creamy Leek Pasta was a real treat.

Creamy Leek Pasta is not only creamy and deliciously tasty, but also bright and colourful with green veg amongst the pasta. Pan-fried leeks, and courgettes, plus some peas, give the creamy leek pasta its colour and fresh flavours. If you're fan of other green veg, like spring greens, you could throw that in too.

The trick to making sure that the vegetables don't end up as green mush, is to fry the veg for just enough time and to cook the peas briefly so they all have enough bite to them to add interest to the pasta. I like to use spirali pasta because the leeks wind around it and it just looks pretty! You can use whatever you have in the cupboard though.

For the creamy sauce to add to the pasta and veg, there's nothing fancy required, just some vegetable stock and light cream cheese and you're done! It really is that quick. I will be adding it to my quick dinners list without a doubt!

If you are interested in eating something healthy, vegetarian and light on the calories, then a pretty sizeable portion of this creamy leek pasta will set you back 500 calories and it's nice and filling. If you are following Slimming World then this pasta recipe is syn free if you switch the Philadelphia light to Quark and switch the olive oil to spray oil.


creamy leek pasta in a bowl with text overlay



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