I love fresh tomato pastas. Add a little bit of spice and lots of veggies and I am very happy. You now start to feel like some hotter more wholesome meals with fall coming and this is one of those recipes that fits in. It is also a quick and easy one bowl meal which is easy on the budget. Enjoy!!
Late Summer Sausage Pasta
Author: Tara Noland
Recipe type: Entree
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Serves: 4
A wonderful pasta choked full of veggies and sausage!
Ingredients
- 1 Tbsp. olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- ½ red onion, chopped
- ½ red pepper, chopped
- ½ green pepper, chopped
- ½ yellow pepper, chopped
- 3 medium tomatoes, chopped
- 3 Spicy sausage, grilled or sauteed and then sliced
- 1-28 oz. can of diced tomatoes
- ¼ cup chopped fresh basil
- 2 fresh sprigs of oregano, chopped
- 1 fresh sprig of thyme, chopped
- Red pepper flakes to taste
- 1 Tbsp. tomato paste
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 450 gms penne pasta
- ½ cup mozzarella, grated
- Parsley for garnish
Instructions
- In a large saute pan add the olive oil and saute the garlic, onion and peppers until tender. Remove from the pan and set aside.
- Place the canned tomatoes in the saute pan with the herbs, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper and cook to reduce for 10 min. on medium high heat. Add the tomato paste and stir to combine and let simmer for 5 min. more.
- Meanwhile cook the penne pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water until al dente.
- Add the fresh tomatoes, peppers and sausage to the tomatoes. Toss to combine and heat through. Add the penne pasta and the mozzarella. Toss to combine. Serve immediately sprinkled with the parsley.
I’d put some kale in that!! Do you want some?!?!?!?
Haven’t really used kale much at all but I would like to experiment. Do you have tons of it? Is it going in your morning porridge too!!
No not in the porridge but don’t give me ideas. It went very nicely into some apple muffins though. Poor Randy gets the heejeebies when he sees all the frozen kale in the freezer
LOL!!
Oh my gosh that looks so good!
Thanks Kat and thanks for coming over!!