One Pot Caprese Pasta Recipe (No Draining Required!)

This delicious One-Pot Caprese Pasta Recipe is made in 10 minutes and requires absolutely no draining. It’s the perfect easy weeknight dinner idea. 

One Pot Caprese Pasta Recipe

Don’t you just love easy recipes? The ones that you can whip up in minutes and are delicious and pretty enough for company? Yup! Me too, that’s why this One Pot Caprese Pasta Recipe will be a weekly staple in your household.

If you’re a novice cook or an advanced one, you can’t mess up this dish. Just toss some raw ingredients in a pot and stir. That’s it, no draining, rinsing, reducing, or any other technique is needed…

A pot, a spoon, and some basic ingredients. I end the dish with little mozzarella cheese pieces so they can melt inside the hot pasta. Yum.

Here’s how this One Pot Caprese Pasta Recipe starts:

Multicolored tomatoes, spaghetti, basil, garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper. Your typical Caprese salad ingredients in a delicious pasta dish. I had to prepare this recipe without my 4 year old finding out.

She’s addicted to those yellow tomatoes. I even tried growing them once and when the first ones came out, she ate them all and they never grew again.

You can use any kind of tomato you may like, I chose the little ones because I was lazy and didn’t want to spend the day chopping. Some of them are halved but the vast majority are whole. They cook inside the pot and develop delicious and creamy flavors.

See how delicious those strings on cheese become? some are hidden within the pasta and create little surprise pockets of yumminess – yes it’s a technical word, I did the research.

Now think about the time you saved making this One Pot Caprese Pasta Recipe. What will you do with it? Finish watching the last episode of Shameless? Get in line and be the first one to see Fifty Shades. I’d personally sit on the couch and decompress.

Hope you can try this delicious One Pot Caprese Pasta Recipe at home. If you do, please come back and let me know how it came out.

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5 from 1 vote

One-Pot Caprese Pasta

Prep Time1 minute min

Cook Time10 minutes mins

Total Time11 minutes mins

Course: Entree

Keyword: crockpot pasta recipe, no draining pasta, one pot pasta, quick pasta, quick recipes

Servings: 4 -6 Servings

Calories: 542kcal

Author: Tiffany Bendayan

Ingredients

• 12 oz Spaghetti
• 4 1/2 Cups Water
• 1/4 Cup Basil chopped
• 3 Cloves Garlic chopped
• 1 Pint Cherry Tomatoes
• 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
• 8 oz Mozzarella Cheese cubed
• Salt and Pepper to taste

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Instructions

• Place all ingredients except the cheese in a big pot
• Boil over medium-high heat until the liquid is absorbed and the pasta is cooked. Check for seasoning and make the necessary adjustments
• Remove from heat and add the mozzarella cheese. Stir until all the ingredients are combined
• Enjoy!!

Nutrition

Calories: 542kcal | Carbohydrates: 70g | Protein: 25g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 45mg | Sodium: 387mg | Potassium: 504mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 1041IU | Vitamin C: 28mg | Calcium: 332mg | Iron: 2mg

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