Sausage Pasta
When it comes to comfort food you just can't go wrong with a bowl of our delicious homemade sausage pasta!
Our sausage pasta recipe is always a hit for dinner and guarantees empty plates!
When it comes to making sausage pasta you can go basic, like in our yummy BBQ hot dog pasta recipe or you can go all out authentic Italian and cook up a total sausage dish feast!
The key to making a great Italian style sausage pasta recipe is to pick great sausages, well seasoned with a hight meat content.
And to remove the skins, the sausage meat cooks into the sauce so much more deliciously that way.
And when it comes to tomatoes, choose a can of polpa tomatoes, these are finely chopped, almost like a half-way between passata and chopped tomatoes. They give the sauce a rich, sweet tomato flavour but without any excess liquid.
These are great to have in the store cupboard, they're fantastic in any sauce that calls for canned tomatoes.
And if you need to make a quick store cupboard recipe for dinner, you really only need to add seasoning and some fresh basil and you've got yourself a simple pasta sauce.
Equipment Needed To Make Sausage Pasta
- Chopping board
- Sharp knife
- Tablespoon
- Teaspoon
- Pestle and Mortar
- Large saucepan for cooking the sauce - a skillet style is best
- Cooking spoon
- Saucepan for the pasta
- Colander
Sausage Pasta Ingredients
You'll just need a handful of tasty ingredients to make our satisfying Italian sausage pasta recipe
- 350g orecchiette pasta - feel free to use a different pasta shape.
- 6 pork sausages - choose ones with a high meat content, and Italian flavours if you can find them
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 red onion - diced
- 1 red pepper - diced
- 2 cloves garlic - chopped
- 1 teaspoon fennel seeds - crushed using a pestle and mortar
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 400g can chopped tomatoes - we use the Polpa tomatoes
- 1 cup frozen spinach
Cooks Note! This organic chopped spinach from Pack'd is such a find! It's really well chopped and loose leaf, not frozen in big clumps, so it's great for adding to pasta sauce or curry. And you can even blend this one from frozen in smoothies which my kids are loving!
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How To Make Sausage Pasta
Our sausage and pasta recipe is super easy to make and completely delicious to eat!
Step One - remove the sausage skins
- Slit the sausages with a sharp knife and flip the sausage meat from the skins. Then break the sausage into 5 or 6 pieces using your fingers.
Step Two - brown the sausage pieces
- Add the olive oil to the skillet pan and fry the sausage pieces over a medium heat until they start to brown.
- Once they're browned remove them from the pan to a plate. It will only take a few minutes to brown the sausages pieces, you don't need to cook them through, just get some colour on them.
Step Three - sauté the onions, peppers and garlic
- Tip the diced onions, red peppers and garlic into the pan and gently fry for a couple of minutes. Then tip in the dried oregano and crushed fennel seeds and continue to fry until softened.
Step Four - add the rest of the sausage pasta sauce ingredients
- Tip the browned sausages back into the pan with the peppers and onions.
- Then add in the tomatoes and frozen spinach. Add a pinch of salt and black pepper and stir well.
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Step Five - cook the sausage pasta sauce
- Bring the sauce to the boil and pop the lid on, then simmer over a low heat for around 30 minutes until the sausage are cooked through and the vegetables softened.
Step Six - cook the pasta
- When the sausage pasta sauce is around 15 minutes off being ready, cook the pasta as per the packet instructions in boiling salted water.
- Drain the pasta using a colander.
Step Seven - mix the pasta and sausage sauce together
- Stir the cooked pasta into the sausage sauce, scatter with fresh chopped herbs if you have any to hand and then serve.
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Add Your Own Twist To Our Sausage Recipe
You can add in or switch any ingredients you like and really make this sausage meal your own!
- Add in more vegetables - try adding in mushrooms, courgettes, fennel or aubergine.
- Switch the pasta - use any pasta you like, or serve the sauce with rice, couscous or mashed potatoes.
- Make it spicy - create a delicious spicy sausage pasta recipe by adding in fresh chillies.
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What To Serve With Sausage And Pasta
Our easy sausage dinner idea is delicious served with any of the following...
- Steamed broccoli
- Garlicky kale
- Garlic bread - try our homemade garlic bread brioche here
- Green salad
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Sausage Pasta
Just the BEST sausage pasta. A total bowlful of deliciousness!
Ingredients
- 350g pasta shapes
- 6 pork sausages
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 red onion - diced
- 1 red pepper - diced
- 2 cloves garlic - finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon fennel seeds - crushed
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 400g chopped tomatoes
- 1 cup frozen spinach
Instructions
- Split the sausages with a sharp knife and flip the sausage meat from the skins. Then break the sausage into 5 or 6 pieces using your fingers.
- Add the olive oil to the skillet pan and fry the sausage pieces over a medium heat until they start to brown.
- Once they’re browned remove them from the pan to a plate. It will only take a few minutes to brown the sausages pieces, you don’t need to cook them through, just get some colour on them.
- Tip the diced onions, red peppers and garlic into the pan and gently fry for a couple of minutes. Then tip in the dried oregano and crushed fennel seeds and continue to fry until softened.
- Tip the browned sausages back into the pan with the peppers and onions.
- Then add in the tomatoes and frozen spinach. Add a pinch of salt and black pepper and stir well.
- Bring the sauce to the boil and pop the lid on, then simmer over a low heat for around 30 minutes until the sausage are cooked through and the vegetables softened.
- When the sausage pasta sauce is around 15 minutes off being ready, cook the pasta as per the packet instructions in boiling salted water.
- Drain the pasta using a colander.
- Stir the cooked pasta into the sausage sauce, scatter with fresh chopped herbs if you have any to hand and then serve.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 338Total Fat: 14gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 30mgSodium: 335mgCarbohydrates: 39gFiber: 6gSugar: 6gProtein: 15g
Nutritional content will vary depending on the exact ingredients you use and how careful you are with measuring - this nutritional information is given as a general guide only and may not be accurate - you should always calculate your own nutritional information especially if you have specific dietary requirements.
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Wendy is the creator of Daisies & Pie, a UK food blog sharing easy meals and home lifestyle tips since 2012
