Penne with Ham and Parmesan recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon salt, divided 1 (12 ounce) package penne pasta ½ cup butter 2 cups 1-inch strips cooked ham 1 (8 ounce) package sliced fresh mushrooms ½ cup all-purpose flour 1 bay leaf 2 cups milk ½ teaspoon dried basil 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese 1 (10 ounce) package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
Nutrition Info
- 608.2 caloriescarbohydrate: 57 gcholesterol: 84.1 mgfat: 30.9 gfiber: 4 gprotein: 27.8 gsaturatedFat: 16.4 gservingSize: -sodium: 1351.6 mgsugar: 6.8 gtransFat: : -unsaturatedFat: : -
Directions Penne with Ham and Parmesan
Directions
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Stir 1/2 teaspoon salt into a pot of water, bring to a boil. Stir penne pasta into the boiling water and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender yet firm to the bite, about 11 minutes, drain.
Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir ham and mushrooms in hot butter until the mushrooms are softened, 3 to 4 minutes.
Stir flour, remaining salt, and bay leaf into the ham mixture, cook and stir until flour begins to bind butter into a paste, about 2 minutes. Stream milk into the skillet while stirring. Melt Parmesan cheese into the milk mixture, add basil and continue cooking and stirring until the milk thickens into a sauce, 2 to 3 minutes.
Remove skillet from heat and immediately stir spinach into the sauce, add to drained pasta and stir to coat the pasta.