Italian Suasage Pasta
Italian sausage pasta is a quick and tasty pasta dish. Super easy to make, ideal for those busy weeknights where you need to throw something together quickly.
Ingredients
- 1 lb / 500 g pasta
Italian Sausage Sauce
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 lb / 500 g pork Italian sausages or sausage of choice
- 1 medium onion finely diced
- 2 - 3 cloves garlic minced
- 28 oz / 800 g canned diced tomatoes
- 1/2 tbsp Italian seasoning
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to instructions.
- Meanwhile heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil oil in a large skillet or saucepan on medium-high heat.
- Crumble sausages (Note 1) into skillet and cook for 3-5 minutes, until browned on all sides. Take the sausage out of the skillet and set aside for later.
- Clean skillet if necessary and heat the remaining tablespoon of olive oil on medium heat.
- Add in the diced onion to the skillet and cook for 2-3 minutes, until translucent, then add in the minced garlic and cook for another 2-3 minutes, being careful not to burn garlic.
- Stir in the diced tomatoes, salt, pepper and Italian seasoning. Bring to a simmer and then turn down the heat to medium-low. Simmer for 8-10 minutes until most of the liquid from the tomatoes is gone.
- Mix the crumbled sausage back into the sauce. Cook for another 2-3 minutes to heat the sausages back up, then turn off the heat
- If the skillet or saucepan is large enough add the cooked pasta to it, otherwise combine sauce and pasta together in a large bowl. Mix the sauce and pasta together, until the pasta is well coated in the sauce.
Notes
- To crumble the sausages you need to get the meat out of the sausage casing. You can do this by either pushing the meat out the end of the casing, or you can run a knife along the sausage lengthwise and squeeze/scoop the meat out.
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