After all, Meghan’s one-pot pasta recipe was pretty simple, and the blueprint it was built upon is infinitely versatile. So I figured there had to be an ingredient that you could throw in with the others, one that required no additional work or lengthy cook times—a magic bullet, if you will, to round out this otherwise impressively easy dish.

Like many of the dishes Meghan prepared in her lifestyle and cooking show, the single-pot pasta dish was whipped up in her meringue-hued Le Creuset Cast Iron Shallow Casserole Dish (£265), a staple in her whimsical, light-filled kitchen.