Description

This winning recipe combines the delicious flavors of caramelized onions and a creamy sauce with mushrooms and fresh spinach. Feel free to add cooked, cubed chicken if you desire.

Ingredients

• Caramelized Onions:
• 1 T. olive oil
• 3 large yellow onions, sliced
• 1/4 t. salt
• 1 T. balsamic vinegar
• Mushrooms and Spinach:
• 1 T. olive oil
• 10 oz. mushrooms, sliced (button mushrooms or favorite)
• 6 oz. fresh spinach
• Pasta:
• 8 oz. farfalle pasta
• Creamy Pasta Sauce:
• 1 c. half-and-half*
• 1 c. Parmesan cheese, shredded, divided
• 1/4 t. salt

Steps

1. Caramelized Onions:
2. In a large skillet, heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Add sliced onions; cook on High heat for about 10 minutes, stirring constantly. The onions should start to brown, but without burning. Reduce heat to medium; continue cooking onions for 10 more minutes, continuing to stir, as onions brown even more without burning. At this point, sprinkle a pinch of salt over onions. Continue cooking for 10 more minutes on medium or low heat, stirring occasionally to make sure onions don’t stick to the bottom of the skillet or burn. Onions should have cooked now for a total of 30 minutes.
3. Remove skillet from heat; sprinkle onions with a small amount of balsamic vinegar to deglaze the skillet. Use a spatula to stir onions, scraping the bottom of the skillet and coating onions with a pinch of balsamic vinegar that was just added. Transfer caramelized onions to a platter.