One Pot Garlic Parmesan Pasta
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The easiest and creamiest pasta made in a single pot – even the pasta gets cooked right in the pan! How easy is that?
Garlic and parmesan. A match made in heaven. And with the help of a single pan, you can make the easiest, most epic pasta ever.
Just think of this as a creamy alfredo, except without the heavy cream and the cream cheese. And no, taste is not compromised in this super easy one pot meal.
The one pan aspect actually helps the noodles soak up all that amazing flavor, giving you that light cream sauce coating the noodles in all its garlic-Parmesan glory.
And if you really want to save on dishes, you know my rule – this should get eaten straight out of the pot. The dishes, the plating, the garnishes – it’ll just slow you down anyway!
One Pot Garlic Parmesan Pasta
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1 cup milk, or more, as needed
- 8 ounces uncooked fettuccine
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- ¼ cup freshly grated Parmesan
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
Instructions
- Melt butter in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add garlic and cook, stirring frequently, until fragrant, about 1-2 minutes.
- Stir in chicken broth, milk and fettuccine; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until pasta is cooked through, about 18-20 minutes. Stir in Parmesan. If the mixture is too thick, add more milk as needed until desired consistency is reached.
- Serve immediately, garnished with parsley, if desired.
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I have a teenaged son on the autism spectrum. The list of foods he’ll eat is pretty narrow, but one of them is the boxed angel hair pasta with parmesan sauce. We have a lunch meal rotation over the summer school break so we’re not always resorting to cereal or ramen (his two standbys). Disaster struck when my local grocery was out of the boxed pasta mix. I went searching for a recipe, but so many start with “Prepare pasta according to package directions,” and, seriously, who wants to deal with a pot of boiling water and draining and all that work for two people? Thank goodness for your recipe, which my noncommittal son rated “okay” (This is high praise). I used angel hair pasta, so had to cook for only 5 minutes.
Thanks for this recipe!
I make this all the time with spinach, mushroom and asparagus. One of my favorite meal option.
I made this but included pancetta, spinach and some chopped chorizo. One of the most delicious and decadent meals ive ever had
Hi, this looks absolutely delicious! Just one question: is chicken broth and chicken stock the same thing? I’m from South Africa, so possibly chicken broth is called something else here. Tx!
Lauren, here is a great resource discussing their differences. Hope that helps!
Wonderful one pot recipe. Made for dinner last night, used dried oregano as not fans of parsley, spaghetti for the pasta, used up some roast chicken added towards the end and stock made from the roast chicken. Will definitely make again, simple yet delicious, so creamy without a hint of cream in sight – even using semi-skimmed milk. Thank you for sharing.
Made this tonite and all I can say it was DAMN DELICIOUS! Thank you for the great recipe! It’s a keeper!
Great one pot dish, I made it a meal by adding chicken in the first step with olive oil/garlic and added green beans the last 5 minutes.
Also works great with gluten free noodles. Love it.
I don’t know what happened, but this didn’t come out creamy at all… it’s pretty dry. I ended up needing to put in way more chicken broth and milk than the recipe calls for, and it still came out dry? Not entirely sure what happened.
I personally added about 3 times the milk that was suggested but mostly because i had more ingredients than was suggested
(either way i generally treat the recipe as a guide and just add how much i feel it should have!)
Making this as I type…it smells and looks amazing, but it was still super runny after the boiling process so I did it for a little longer. I can’t wait to devour it!!!!
This turned out to be soo good. Thank you for sharing this recipe. I replaced the fettuccini with multi-grain linguine and added a few veggies – carrots and green pepper . Easiest pasta recipe ever!
Made this tonight but with beef broth instead! Super delicious!
I am a huge fan of one-pan meals. Not much clean up 🙂
This was so good! I added 16oz of sliced, white mushrooms for an extra boost!
That is a good shout!
What are the nutritional facts for this recipe?
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I’m not sure if this was asked previously; but, can I do this with a chicken-and-cheese-filled ravioli? The ravioli is refrigerated, not frozen. Thank you!
This recipe will not work with fresh pasta.
Looks delicious! Question for you: Can I get away with skipping the butter or substitution it with oil? Thanks!
Unfortunately, without further recipe testing, I cannot answer with certainty. As always, please use your best judgment.
I totally messed up and put a whole box of pasta in (not realizing how much 8 oz. really is), so I just added more milk, broth, butter. It was still so good that my husband said again this morning how much he liked it.
Thanks for a great recipe.
Lisa
What about adding cleaned shrimp towards the end?
Yes, absolutely.
Made this tonight, substituting chicken stock for vegetable stock as hubby is vegetarian, and – like the name of this blog suggests – it was damn delicious! Even my 4-year-old who eats nothing cleared his plate! Will definitely be making this again, and adding some veggies for extra colour, flavour, and nutrition. Simple to make & only one pot to clean – what’s not to love?