Make A Simple Yet Delicious Pasta Sauce With This Creamy Canned Soup

Pasta can be a relatively quick, super delicious, and hearty meal to make at home. Of course, you can go with a basic tomato sauce recipe. You'll pretty much just need to saute some garlic and onions and add in the tomatoes with your spice or herb of choice. You can even grab something off the grocery store shelf that still tastes homemade. However, they're mostly in the red direction, with fewer options for something creamy that isn't alfredo. This little trick uses a can that you may already have in the kitchen cabinet and will give you a wonderfully creamy sauce that makes enough for the whole family to enjoy. Try making pasta sauce with cream of chicken soup.

If you like the soup, you know the flavor, and it works well with almost any type of pasta. Best of all, you can dial it in exactly to your preferences. For the simplest way to make this dish, you just mix them together once the pasta is cooked and the sauce is warmed in a pan. It's a creamy mélange of flavors that's easy to impress almost anyone at the table, even the pickiest of toddlers. So, just open your can and get started.

While this recipe works with almost any basic (or fancy) semolina flour-based pasta, it's great with egg noodles, too. You can cook your pasta however you normally would; it's going to be the base. However, when it comes to the cream of chicken soup, you might need to make a few adjustments from the regular cooking instructions. You want this thick — it's going to be a sauce, not a soup, after all — so you'll want to use less liquid. While a regular soup would call for a full can of liquid, you'll need much less, about half a cup or a little less than half a can. You can use some of the starchy pasta water or even milk to up the level of creaminess, too.

To add more flavor, try fresh veggies and dried herbs and spices. You can even cook up some fresh chicken (or use your favorite grocery store rotisserie) to make it a heartier meal. Just saute everything until it's ready to go, then add it to your sauce. To get the full restaurant feel, however, with all the flavor cooked in, you might want to try cooking your sauce base with all the veggies and accouterments, then add the pasta to soften into the sauce. A little cubed chicken breast and some Italian herbs will give it the full-on restaurant feel. If you're looking for another simple pasta meal that just needs to be popped open, there's another Italian-style meal that starts with a can (parmesan-based soup, in this case). But you can always add a little grated parmesan to your cream of chicken pasta for more cheesy flavor.