5 Meals in 25 Minutes Meal Prep | Creamy Tomato Pasta Recipe

This creamy tomato pasta meal prep is extremely easy to make and takes only 25 to 30 minutes to set you up for the whole week or weeks ahead, depending on how you store it. It's cheap, low in calories, and will give you the energy to go on with your day. Please enjoy.

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Recipe -
Serves - 5
Ingredients -

500g (1.1lbs) - Penne or Pasta of Choice
2 Tbsp (40ml) - Olive Oil
2 - Brown (Yellow) Onions, Diced
6 - Garlic Cloves, Minced
3 Tbsp (100g) - Concentrated Tomato Paste
150ml - Chicken Stock
2 Cans (800g-28.2oz) - Diced or Crushed Tomatoes
2 1/2 tsp (3g) - Dried Oregano
1 1/2 tsp (2g) - Dreid Basil
10g (0.35oz) - Basil Leaves, Stems Saved
2 Tbsp (60g) - Light Cream Cheese
150g (5.29oz) - Baby Spinach
Parmesan Cheese To Taste, Freshly Grated
Seasoning To Taste

Recipe Notes -

This is a vegetarian recipe but can easily be made with chicken and minced beef. This will increase protein intake.

Chicken -

Breast and thigh are great options. Personally id go with thigh as it reheats better. As for cooking breast meat, dice it up and sear first for 6 minutes and remove. As for thigh meat, dice and sear first for 10 minutes and remove. Add the chicken back in before adding in the pasta, after the sauce has been reduced for 12 minutes.

Minced (Ground Beef) -

Add the beef in first and sear for 5 minutes then continue the recipe as normal.

[Besh-hnoe]

You are my life saver! For about 2 weeks now im cooking your meal prep dishes. Just awesome! Thank you so much Jack.

[lukelebrasse]

As soon as you mentioned cracked black pepper, I was almost scared you wouldn't do the thing! I have come to expect it.

[THEellieSims]

Absolutely loving this, thanks Jack! The lower calorie meal prep recipes really help out, would love to see more dinners with 400-600 calories per dish, helps out massively when dieting!

[yvind]

Just wanted to say I'm very happy to see the growth of your channel Jack, been here for a long time and tried making a lot of your dishes and its so nice to see you get rewarded for your hard work 😊

[madman]

I know Jack has mentioned versions with meat in in the description but I thought I'd let yous know what I did which turned out beautifully.
Get some skin on boneless chicken Thighs (1kg) and season the skin and underneath however you want, I used Paprika, Cayenne, Cumin, salt and pepper. Then fry skin side down in a big pan to get a nice crispy skin, turn over to sear the underneath then place in a 200c oven for 15-20 mins for perfectly cooked chicken. Set that to the side then commence the recipe in the pan with all the lovely chicken juices already in the pan. Just add the cooked chicken at the end and I also added some resting juices as well to top it all off. Cheers for another great recipe Jack 👍

[henrymichal]

mate, this is next level. Simple, elegant, cheap. I was worried by the term "Creamy" as I was expecting a load of cream. The amount of cream cheese you use is a minimum. It ticks all the boxes. Thanks for sharing.

[DaIIen]

Love these types of videos mate. Especially for lunches when working out of my van. More of these will be appreciated, top work! 👍🏻

[jgraef]

Great video. Such an easy meal and has to taste delicious. I love the depth of your chicken stock, Jack. 💖

[robbuckley]

Looks very flavoursome, and thanks for showing the actual amount of salt, I don’t think I put enough in sometimes and what’s a pinch!

[jopenewyork]

Chef Jack Thank you so much for this awesome recipe. My children love pasta so I am always looking for different pastas recipes. I love your containers. Thanks again 👨‍🍳 👨‍🍳

[pilotgal]

I’m Sicilian and I really want to know how you got my mom’s recipe for tomato sauce!!!! I’ve been making tomato sauce like this for 50 years (except for the sour cream)! Lol! Awesome video!

[smitajal]

I so love, how as a chef you are using ingredients which people just throw in their bins.. Another fab recipe...iam down with fever and this dish would bring all the taste back in my mouth..but don't have energy to cook😄 Thank you Chef Jack... Take care 💕💕💕💕

[WelcomeToMyHead]

Love how straightforward and to the point your videos are! I also love all of these veggie options - great for those of us who don’t eat meat!
I actually meant for this comment to go on the chickpea curry video but it switched on me while commenting 😂

[nickmcfadden]

You make me excited to meal prep with all these fire recipes! Quick easy and delicious! Thanks for helping me save money and eat better

[Titohascontent]

Great recipe Jack ! In my homeland of Tunisia 🇹🇳it is illegal to chop basil like that, I will have mine whole. Thank you my friend 🇹🇳🇹🇳

[leannegoodman]

This is great for work lunches. Loving the Weber t-shirt 😁

[desgoulding]

Thanks for sharing another great dish mate.

[holdingthebull]

3:25 oh no.... how many cracks worth do we need to put in! Panic stations! Haha love it mate

[atrandomly]

I really enjoy watching your cooking vlogs, simple and easy, learning a lot from your vlogs!👍

[anonymeanonyma]

Chef Jack!! Thank you for your delicious recipes, which are very easy to make. I subscribed 🇫🇷