Creamy Pasta and Sausage
"Very creamy sauce that my kids love! I do not favor anything with tomatoes but I love this!"
photo by *Parsley*
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
- 1⁄2 lb pork sausage link, mild (I remove the casings and crumble)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon garlic, chopped
- 2⁄3 cup canned tomato sauce
- 1⁄2 cup heavy cream
- salt and pepper
- 2 tablespoons parsley, chopped
- 1 lb pasta
- parmesan cheese, freshly grated
directions
- Take sausage out of casings and crumble.
- Put olive oil and chopped garlic in a skillet and turn the heat to medium.
- When the garlic becomes pale gold, add the sausage.
- Turn from time to time, until nicely browned all over, about 15 minutes.
- Add the tomato and cook, uncovered, stirring occasionally, adjusting the heat if necessary so it will cook at a gentle simmer.
- After about 20 minutes, when the fat separates from the other juices and floats free, add the cream and turn up the heat.
- Cook for 1 to 2 minutes, stirring frequently, until the cream is reduced.
- Add salt and a liberal grinding of pepper.
- Turn off the heat and stir in the chopped parsley.
- Cook pasta in pot of boiling salted water.
- When tender, but firm to the bite, drain; toss immediately with sauce.
- Serve at once with freshly grated parmesan cheese.
- NOTES: The sauce maybe be prepared several hours in advance.
- It should be reheated gently when the pasta is almost cooked.
- I always double the sauce because in my house there never seems to be enough.
- My family loves this sauce.
- Double everything except the sausage, pasta and parmesan cheese to double the sauce.
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Reviews
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Five stars for flavor, but I think the serving size is WAY off if this is used as an entree....even with the sauce doubled! I quadrupled the sauce and doubled the meat and being conservative with the sauce we barely got 6 servings with 1 pound of pasta! I used hot Italian and had some diced onion that needed using as well so in it went. The flavor is very good, much more sweet (even with the hot sausage) than your normal red sauce. We served it over penne rigate and it was divine! I will definitely do this as a repeat preformance! -
What a simple and tasty dish - perfect for a weeknight. I used a well seasoned fresh pork sausage and it was just right for me. DH added a few sprinkles of crushed red pepper to his and proclaimed it perfect. -
this was delicious! i wasn't too sure about the color of the sauce (kinda orange) but it was awesome! and my one year old daughter liked it too! -
This pasta dish was absolutely delicious. We loved the cream in the sauce. I used some herb sausages, so it came out very flavorful. I look forward to trying different types of sausage in this recipe in the future. I can see this dish becoming a weekly thing for us because it is so easy and good. Thanks for the recipe!
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I gave this 4 stars. I made this for my families dinner and my 6 yrs old niece and 3 & 5 yrs old newphews eat this right up. I liked but I think I'd rather have half sausage and half ground beef. I had to make a few changes to the recipe. I didn't have heavy cream so I used half n half. I also used dried parsley as I don't have fresh. Overall this will be made again with the ground beef/sausage. Thanks for posting a kid pleaser! Christine (internetnut)
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
RecipeNut
Smithfield, Rhode Island
