Orzo with Cherry Tomatoes and Spinach Recipe
Category: Easy Diet recipes
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I came across this meal at a local grocery store that had a cooking station that allowed shoppers to taste test the food! It is my new addiction and I usually have it about once a week!It is sooooo easy to cook and does not take a ton of time either!
Servings: 6
Ingredients:
1-3 Cups of Spinach
1 Pint of Cherry/Grape Tomatoes
1 Cup of Orzo
1/4 C of chopped Onions
1 Tablespoon of Garlic
6 Tablespoons of Balsamic Vinegar
6 Tablespoons of Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO)
Directions:
-Boil 1 cup of Orzo (less than 10 minutes)
- Chop of the onions and caramelize the onions in a frying pan with 1 Tablespoon of the oil.
- Once the onions are cooked, add garlic and 2 tablespoons of Balsamic Vinegar and cook in pan for 2 minutes
-Remove contents of pan and place in separate bowl
-Slice Cherry Tomatoes in half (or leave whole if you prefer) and place on same frying pan that the garlic and onions were cooked in
-Cook Tomatoes until they get soggy or until you start seeing the skin fall off of the tomatoes!
-Remove Tomatoes and place in bowl with garlic and onions
-Add all the spinach to the same frying pan and cook until spinach is soggy (sometimes to prevent spinach from burning in the pan
I've added a bit of water)
-Once spinach is soggy, chop up spinach into small pieces and place in bowl with other ingredients
Finally, add all the contents of the bowl (garlic , onions, tomatoes and spinach) back into the frying pan WITH
the cooked Orzo.
Slowly add in the remaining EVOO and Balsamic Vinegar one tablespoon at a time and taste after each added ingredient!
The original recipe called for 8 tablespoons of EVOO but I found this to be wayyy to oily and still tasted fine to me to remove some oil!
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Tags: delicious, healthy, Main Dish, pasta, vegetarian
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