Goat cheese adds a creamy texture and tangy flavor to ordinary spaghetti sauce. Works with homemade sauce or pour it right out of a jar to save tons of time, making this a super easy 10 minute meal!

Spaghetti has always been my go-to for nights when a) I don’t want to cook, or b) my kids are balking at everything I suggest. It’s easy to whip up using jarred sauce and dry pasta and I can have dinner on the table in less than 15 minutes.

Lately we’ve been getting tired of the same old stand-by so I decided to try to change it up a little bit. My plan was to make a creamy sauce using heavy cream or cream cheese. So I heated my sauce and cooked up the pasta, then went to the fridge to find that neither of those things were there. But I did have goat cheese, so I gave it a try and it was so delicious! My kids gobbled it up and there were hardly any leftovers.

Goat Cheese and Tomato Sauce

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Author: Kristin

Ingredients

1 jar of your favorite spaghetti sauce
1 pound pasta spaghetti and linguine work best, cooked to package directions
2 ounces fresh goat cheese
2 tablespoons Parmesan Cheese for garnish if desired
Fresh parsley for garnish if desired

Instructions

Heat spaghetti sauce over medium heat until bubbly. Remove from heat and stir in goat cheese until completely melted. Add cooked pasta straight out of the cooking water to the sauce.
for a thinner sauce, add a tablespoon at a time of the pasta cooking liquid.

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