Name: One-Pot Creamy Vegetable Pasta recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: italian
Ingredients: 500.00 ml vegetable stock; 1 leek quartered finely sliced; 200 g mushrooms thickly sliced; 375 g spaghetti broken in half; 3 garlic cloves thinly sliced; 1 tsp salt; 1 cup frozen peas; 0.6 cup parmesan cheese; 1/4 cup parmesan cheese *to serve *extra; 1/2 cup thickened cream; 100 g baby spinach

by Australia's Best Recipes Team Last updated on 05/02/2025

For a quick and easy, no-fuss meal, try this creamy one pot vegetable pasta topped with shaved parmesan cheese.

- Australia's Best Recipes Team

Ingredients

2 cups vegetable stock
1 leek quartered finely sliced
200 g mushrooms thickly sliced
375 g spaghetti broken in half
3 garlic cloves thinly sliced
1 tsp salt
1 cup frozen peas
0.6 cup parmesan cheese
1/4 cup parmesan cheese *to serve *extra
1/2 cup thickened cream
100 g baby spinach

Method

Step 1

Place stock, leek, mushrooms, spaghetti, garlic, salt and 2 cups water in a deep large saucepan.
Step 2

Bring to the boil. Boil for 6 minutes, stirring very often.
Step 3

Add peas, parmesan and cream. Boil for 2 minutes, stirring, or until pasta is cooked and liquid is mostly evaporated.
Step 4

Remove from heat and stand for 2 minutes for sauce to thicken a little more. Stir through spinach until just wilted.
Step 5

Season with pepper and serve with extra parmesan if you like.

Recipe Notes

from Australia’s Best Recipes team

Make sure you clean the leek well to discard any grit.

Quarter the leek lengthways.

Having a deep large saucepan makes it easier to stir.

You need to break the spaghetti in 2 or it is too hard to stir and they tend to stick. Stir very often to make sure pasta cooks evenly and doesn't stick to the base. We used a spaghetti which cooks in 8 minutes.

This recipe was created by Lucy Nunes for Best Recipes.