This is a sponsored post for Barilla. As always, all opinions are my own.
Things get hectic during the week in my home and now that Back to School Season starts in few weeks, I need to be ready. I need to make sure that I have some great recipes up my sleeve that I can whip up in 30 minutes or less. This recipe for Spinach, White Bean, and Chicken Sausage over Rotini Pasta featuring Barilla Tomato and Basil Sauce and Barilla Rotini easily fits that bill. Buying Barilla Pasta in the blue box will even help feed hungry children across America through No Kid Hungry. Read on to find out more and check out my fun video! Spinach, White Bean, and Sausage Rotini Pasta Recipe – Easy Weeknight Dinner
I went down to my local Walmart to pick up the ingredients. I picked out Barilla Tomato and Basil Sauce first and decided to base my recipe on this. Barilla Tomato and Basil Sauce has simple ingredients, no preservatives, it’s gluten free, kosher, and made with Non-GMO ingredients. I also picked up Barilla Rotini (yep, in the blue box). Barilla has adopted the Mediterranean diet model as an exemplary method of incorporating pasta into a healthy lifestyle. The Mediterranean Diet places an emphasis on the consumption of fresh vegetables and produce. It also recommends a moderate intake of protein from lean sources primarily from poultry or fish.
Normally I would choose the penne, but I was in the mood for something different. My husband suggested that I also pick up some chicken or turkey sausage, spinach, mushrooms, and cannelloni (small white) beans. While our kids were playing, we quickly whipped up our dinner.
The twists and spirals of Rotini allow it to embrace both refined and simple sauces. Rotini is just perfect paired with light tomato sauces (with or without finely diced vegetables), dairy-based sauces, or oil-based sauces. Made with simple ingredients, Rotini has a low Glycemic Index, which can keep you fuller longer. It’s enriched with iron and B Vitamins and made with non-GMO ingredients.
Here’s my fun video how to make it.
Ingredients:
2 jars Barilla Tomato and Basil Sauce
2 boxes of Barilla Rotini Pasta (you can sub in any Barilla Pasta you wish)
1 can cannelloni beans (small white beans)
5 mushrooms, chopped
1 package chicken sausage (usually 4-5) links. I bought the already cooked.
1 bag spinach (I used baby spinach)
Instructions
Add two jars of sauce to a large stock pot. Let it start simmering a little (use a low heat).
Add the cut up chicken sausage and stir
Add white beans
Add mushrooms
Add spinach (this will completely fill your stock pot) – stir and then let the spinach cook down (for around 7 -10 minutes). When the spinach has gone down and completely in the sauce, move it to the back burner on a low simmer for another 5-10 minutes while you make the rotini pasta.
Make rotini pasta according to directions.
Drain the pasta and serve the sauce over it.
Serve to hungry family members!
Now, my kids usually don’t like red sauce. However, the smell drew them in and I couldn’t keep them away from it.
I’m also excited to tell you that Barilla has partnered up with No Kid Hungry.
The No Kid Hungry organization is a national non-profit organization that focuses on connecting kids in need with nutritious food and teaches their families how to cook healthy, affordable meals. The campaign also engages the public to make ending child hunger a national priority.
48.8 million Americans—including 13 million children— live in households that lack the means to get enough nutritious food on a regular basis. As a result, they struggle with hunger at some time during the year. That’s not okay.
For every box of Barilla Blue Box pasta purchase at Walmart between 8/10/2017 – 10/31/2017, Barilla will donate $1 to No Kid Hungry, up to $50,000. That’s enough to provide 500,000 meals to kids in need. Learn more at nokidhungry.org/onedollar
@BarillaUS @Walmart and @NoKidHungry
I loved your recipe and with a video was even better, if everyone who had a site puts up a video expandoing would not have doubts, very creative …….. Success !!
This looks so delicious! I love spinach in my pasta and the rest sounds equally amazing.
All the ingredients are favorites in my house. I am so gonna make this recipe I know it will be a huge hit. Thanks
This meal looks amazing! I would totally try it for my family and I think they will love it! 🙂
This looks pretty good! I know it sounds strange but I have a tomato allergy so I’d have to fine an alternative to the tomato sauce, maybe pesto? Yum!
Pesto should work nicely! You may want to saute the sausages, spinach, and mushrooms altogether (start with the sausages first), heat up the white beans (drain them first) and then add it to the pasta with the pesto. Would love to see a photo if you try it!
My kids love pasta too, I always make some kind of pasta recipes on Sundays for them, I love it.
Just looking at me made my mouth water, as I’m going to try to make it here at home and I’ll come back to tell you if I got it right.
Chicken is a huge hit at home especially with the kids and I’d love to give this one a try! I’m sure the chicken sausages add a lovely flavor to the recipe. I think it’s really awesome that you added beans and spinach!
YUM how good does this look. I really can eat anything with sausage.
That looks really tasty. I know I would enjoy it. I think my kiddos maybe would too!
I frequently buy Barilla sauce. We have ravioli night once a week here and I love their tomato basil sauce. This looks like a very healthy and well balanced meal.
This works for a quick weeknight dinner. I am not a fan of sausages, but I am sure that I can substitute with another protein. Thanks for the idea.
Any protein will work or you can double the cannelloni beans.
This looks so good! we do pasta at least once a week, so I will have to try this out for next time! I love Barilla sauce too, it makes it so much easier than doing a homemade sauce on a weeknight.
I really love pasta! Haha, but then again who doesn’t!? This sounds and looks delicious! It has everything in it for the perfect weeknight dinner!
I love adding white beans into my pasta dishes, especially if I’m doing something vegetarian. They add great flavor and are full of healthy protein.
I love that they have partnered with NO Child Hungry. That makes my heart feel good! I also love that this has white beans. I love beans in pasta!
Thanks for the recipe! Seems like an easy dinner but more nutrition and content than just pasta and sauce.
I SO love pasta and my husband does too! We love learning more and more pasta recipes that we can try at home. This sounds so good. The spinach and the white bean would go so well with the sausages.
This looks good. I enjoy a good pasta dish for the family. I never would have thought to add beans to it. I’ll have to make this!
This looks delicious! I love adding beans to meals like this, gives it something extra and I bet this would be perfect for the whole family!
That sounds super good. I think my kids would love this, too! I am going to have to make it for them.
Oh yum! This look so delicious. We LOVE pasta and sausage in our house so this is a great recipe for us to try!
I a vegetarian but my kids and husband love sausage. We use Barilla pasta all the time but never tried their sauces. I will keep this for my husband who does the cooking most of the time.