Meghan Markle's One-Pot Spaghetti: I Cracked the Recipe
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Meghan Markle’s One-Pot Spaghetti: I Cracked the Recipe

  • 29.10.2025
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While the Duchess of Sussex’s new Netflix series, With Love, Meghan, has sparked plenty of online chatter, one dish in particular has ignited lots of opinions: Meghan’s single-skillet spaghetti recipe, which she makes in the first episode.

In the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, we’ve developed plenty of one-pot pasta recipes over the years — so we were eager to give Meghan’s take on the dish a try. But while several recipes from With Love, Meghan are available on Netflix’s website, the single-skillet spaghetti is notably absent. So, we watched Meghan carefully, jotting down our own version of the recipe based on her on-screen demo.

uncooked spaghetti and tomatoes in a skillet with boiling water on top

Tina Martinez

Here’s how we recreated the dish:

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Ingredients

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1 pt.

yellow cherry tomatoes, halved

1 pt.

red cherry tomatoes, halved

Kosher salt (a generous amount)

Olive oil (a good glug)

4

cloves garlic, chopped

12 oz.

spaghetti

1

lemon, zested

1/2

bunch Swiss chard, stems sliced and leaves roughly chopped

1/2

bunch lacinato kale, stems discarded and leaves roughly chopped

1 pt.

baby arugula

1/2 cup

grated Parmesan cheese

Step 1In a tea kettle, boil 3 1/2 cups water.Step 2In a large skillet, combine tomatoes, salt, oil and garlic, then place spaghetti on top. Add lemon zest, then Swiss chard stems.Step 3Pour boiling water over pasta; you’ll want about 1 inch covered.Step 4Cover with lid, return to a boil and cook for 5 to 8 minutes. Step 5Add the greens (chard and kale leaves, plus a handful of arugula), then cook until the pasta is al dente, 4 to 5 minutes more. Step 6Top with grated Parmesan.
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Tina (she/her) is the food producer of the Hearst Lifestyle Group.  She comes to Hearst with 10 years experience in the world of food styling for editorial, digital and television platforms. When she’s not cooking in her tiny Brooklyn kitchen, she can be found enjoying a beer at a local brewery, hiking in a national park or enjoying an afternoon at the beach.