Quick & Simple Recipes With Schwartz – Traditional & Vegetarian Spaghetti Carbonara

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We’re always on the look out for quick and simple meals that are easy to prepare. Let’s face it everyone is busy and we want to be able to make healthy dinners fast to feed hungry tummy’s, whether that’s our own, little ones, or let’s face it, sometimes both!

So I was excited when I got to try out Schwartz’s Spaghetti Carbonara Recipe Mix. After all, following Schwartz’s recipe guidelines you can create a meal for 4 in 20 minutes!

Schwartz have sent me this recipe mix for review but all views are my own.

We are a household of a mix of meat eaters and vegetarians and with the recipe mix being suitable for vegetarians I thought I’d mix it up and we’d create two versions of this classic dish to suit all.

A creamy recipe mix with aromatic parsley, oregano and black pepper for a simple and tasty, classic Italian dish full of flavour. – Schwartz

Schwartz has a really easy recipe to follow on the back of the recipe mix, you could pick up everything you need as you’re wandering around the supermarket! However, as we were creating two versions I needed to change certain things up a little bit (mainly the ingredients, the recipe directions remain very similar).

Traditional Spaghetti Carbonara

Serves 2

• 100g Mushrooms
• 100g Bacon, diced
• 225ml Semi-skimmed milk
• 140g Spaghetti
• 1/2 Sachet Schwartz Spaghetti Carbonara Recipe Mix

Double these quantities and use a full sachet of Schwartz recipe mix if you wish to make this for 4 servings.

Directions

1 Fry the bacon until golden and crispy. Add the mushrooms to the pan and cook for 2 minutes. At the same time begin cooking the spaghetti in a separate pan.

2 Mix half the recipe mix sachet contents with the milk and stir into the pan. Allow to come to the boil, stirring until smooth and thickened.

3 Stir in the spaghetti and heat through.

4 Garnish with cheese if desired and serve!

Tip

Roast a couple of chicken breasts and dice them up to serve!

Veggie Spaghetti Carbonara

Serves 2

• 100g Mushrooms
• 1/2 Courgette
• 225ml Semi-Skimmed Milk
• 140g Spaghetti
• 1/2 Sachet Schwartz Spaghetti Carbonara Recipe Mix

Double these quantities and use a full sachet of Schwartz recipe mix if you wish to make this for 4 servings.

Directions

1 Fry the Courgettes and mushrooms in a pan for 5 minutes. At the same time begin cooking the spaghetti in a separate pan

2 Mix half the recipe mix sachet contents with the milk and stir into the pan. Allow to come to the boil, stirring until smooth and thickened.

3 Stir in the spaghetti and heat through.

4 Garnish with vegetarian cheese if desired and serve!

Tip

Gently warm some fresh spinach leaves in a pan and stir through for added goodness!

Two Quick And Simple Recipes

So there you have two quick and simple recipes using the Schwartz Spaghetti Carbonara recipe mix. Both the tradional meat and the veggie version went down a treat and were very quick to make. Your options are really endless with these as the mix creates a beautiful, creamy sauce so you can add anything you like! Making it perfect for fussy eaters or those who just like a bit of everything!

You can check out the Schwartz Spaghetti Carbonara recipe mix and their many other options at their website, Schwartz.co.uk

The recipe mix is available for £0.85p from Tesco.com.

Let me know if you recreate any of these recipes!

Schwartz also have gluten free recipe mix options available here!