This is my favorite pork recipe to date. This pork is cooked in apple juice and spiced apple butter for seasoning. This dish is perfect for Sunday dinner if food can be comfortable and warm.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 25 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
Ingredients
- 5 ½ ounces goat cheese
- 2 cups coarsely chopped arugula, stems included
- 1 cup quartered cherry tomatoes
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 8 ounces penne pasta
Instructions
- Cook pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water until al dente.
- Crumble goat cheese into a large serving bowl. Add arugula, cherry tomatoes, olive oil, garlic, salt, and pepper.
- Drain pasta; toss with goat cheese mixture until well combined.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 317 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 30 g |
| Cholesterol | 21 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 11 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7 g |
| Sodium | 334 mg |
| Sugars | 2 g |
| Fat | 18 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I added some sautéed shrimp, but I’m sure it would be good with roasted or poached chicken. This is delicious! I love the tangy goat cheese. Oh, it’s also a very quick recipe!
I sautéed some mushrooms and garlic (doubled the garlic) mixed everything together in the pan with the mushrooms and garlic .and added a little reserved pasta water. It was very delicious and easy to prepare. I will be making it again for sure.
The recipe, with these ratios, turns out way too dry. The retro Weight Watchers recipe I suspect it’s based on uses 4 times the amount of tomatoes this one recommends. If you want to make the goat cheese into a creamy sauce like in the picture, throwing in a little pasta water when you toss everything together will do that. That’s what i do, then put some more goat cheese crumbles on top to serve.
keeper dish. Excellent. Used goat cheese with honey and added shrimp cooked in butter and garlic to make it a complete meal (with garlic bread). Healthy and packed with taste.
Easy to make fast prep work, great flavor
I modified by using sun dried tomatoes, toasted the pine nuts and sautéed the garlic along with the sun dried tomatoes. Used feta cheese. Excellent recipe.
Added a bit of cream cheese and added shrimp that I cooked on the stove top in a garlic butter – yum !
I substituted the cherry tomatoes, olive oil and minced garlic with an 8oz jar of sundried tomatoes in olive oil with spices. It gave the dish a really nice flavor.
I added shrimp that was sautéed in olive oil with Old Bay
Very simple recipe but taste was superb. I did substitute fresh spinach for the arugula.
I added a few mushrooms, a little onion and sun dried tomatoes and sauteed them beforehand with the garlic. I also added a little pasta water, lemon juice, white wine and cayenne as suggested by previous reviews. We really enjoyed it!
I made this tonight and it exceeded all expectations. I buy a lot of goat cheese and I grow a lot of arugula so I’m always looking for ways to use both. I hate when people say a recipe is great or horrible and then go on to say I changed this or that or was out of this and too lazy to go to the store. With this said I did make 3 changes. First I always add an extra clove of garlic to everything because …… I hope I don’t have to explain. Next I had 4.8 oz of goat cheese on hand and that would have been enough, or I could have gone to the store, but I added an ounce of feta to make 5.5 oz. I think in the further I would do this on purpose. The last thing is something that should have been included in the recipe, with all due respect. Many similar pasta recipes will recommend to reserve some pasta water. In no recipe is it more important than this one. Some reviewers complained about the pasta being too thick but all you need to do is thin it with the pasta water to the exact consistency that you like, and nothing turns cheese into cheese sauce like hot water.
This recipe was good! I read the comments before about it being a bit dry and left just a tiny bit of pasta water in and added a bit more olive oil. I also used peppers instead of tomatoes- my family doesn’t particularly like hot tomatoes. The peppers gave it a nice crunch! I also added meatballs. Will make again- super easy and tasty!
This is an update … After making this recipe and not caring for it, I reheated it and added wine, basil and garlic powder…. Topped with some parmesan cheese. It was better but still not a recipe I will make again. I think I am simply not a goat cheese person.
Used spinach the second time as arugula was too harsh for us.
This is REALLY good!
I used half arugala and half spinach. So easy and so good!
I love this recipe. I did, however, add extra tomatoes and arugula. It was the perfect combination of cheese, vegetables, and pasta.
I did add some t Tuscan falvored olive oil but in the future I think I’d use possibly half her and garlic goat cheese. Otherwise delicious!!
Amazing blending of flavors and simple ingredients! I used 100% whole wheat penne pasta and spinach instead of arugula–it was great hot and cold. I added chicken to part of the recipe, which was delicious. I am following Dr. Ian Smith’s , THE CLEAN 20, and this recipe is perfect. I will DEFINITELY make it again!
We loved it! I will make it again. I might use sun dried tomatoes next time.