Monday night special: Tortellini with spinach and pesto

Posted by Dana McMahan on March 10, 2008

Monday night — the first night back to work after a weekend of fun, kitchen-messing cooking — calls for a quick and easy but tasty dinner. I’m usually in charge of dinner on Mondays, and while I’m the resident menu planner, sous chef, plater and food photographer and blogger, I’m not highly skilled at preparing complicated dishes by myself. So my Monday night specials usually revolve around a pasta and the kinds of things we happen to have on hand. I received rave reviews on tonight’s dish, so I’ll share it with you.

Package of cheese tortellini
½ cup mozzarella
Two handfuls baby spinach
Three Tbsp pesto
Two Tbsp chopped sun dried tomato
Two Tbsp pine nuts

Throw a package of cheese tortellini in boiling salted water.
While it boils preheat the oven to 350
Arrange a handful of spinach in the bottom of a small square baking dish.
Top with a little drizzle of pesto and a scattering of cheese
When the tortellini is finished, drain and add to baking dish
Top with almost all the remaining pesto, sun dried tomatoes, and the rest of the spinach
Finish off with the rest of the cheese, the pine nuts and the last drizzle of pesto
Bake about 10 minutes until the cheese is melted

The only bad thing about this dish is that there are no leftovers for lunch.

TAGS: Easy Recipes, Pesto, Quick Meal Ideas, Spinach, Tortellini, Vegetarian
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