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Creamy Spinach and Mushroom Pasta

Rotini in a light cream sauce with browned mushrooms and plenty of spinach.

Creamy Spinach and Mushroom Pasta, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
30 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$10.89

Ingredients

  • 12 oz rotini
  • 16 oz cremini (baby bella) mushrooms
  • 5 oz baby spinach
  • 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 3 oz grated parmesan cheese
  • 4 clove garlic
  • 2 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 tsp dried thyme
  • 2 tsp kosher salt
  • 1/2 tsp ground black pepper

Method

  1. Boil the rotini in salted water and reserve a cup of the water before draining.

  2. Heat the olive oil and butter in a large skillet over medium-high. Add the sliced mushrooms in one layer and leave them alone for 4 minutes so they brown, then stir and cook 4 minutes more.

  3. Add the minced garlic, thyme, salt, and pepper and cook 1 minute.

  4. Pour in the cream and simmer 3 minutes.

  5. Add the spinach and stir until wilted, then the drained pasta and the Parmesan.

  6. Loosen with pasta water until glossy and serve right away.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 11 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£34.39£8.6011 of 11 ingredients
United States$43.57$10.8910 of 11 ingredients
Australia$71.86$17.9710 of 11 ingredients
Canada$110.81$27.7010 of 11 ingredients
Greece37,94 €9,49 €9 of 11 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬٠٧٣٫٠٦ ج.م.‏‏٢٦٨٫٢٧ ج.م.‏9 of 11 ingredients
Germany30,94 €7,74 €9 of 11 ingredients
Mexico$1,068.76$267.199 of 11 ingredients
New Zealand$76.54$19.148 of 11 ingredients
Spain24,25 €*6,06 €7 of 11 ingredients
Austria€ 35,17*€ 8,797 of 11 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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