Penne With Sausages, Rocket, Fennel and Garlic
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 400 g sausages
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 medium onion, peeled and finely sliced
- 1 teaspoon fennel seed
- 400 g dry penne pasta
- 200 ml creme fraiche
- 100 g wild rocket
- salt & freshly ground black pepper
directions
- Set a large pan of salted water over heat to bring to a boil.
- Heat a frying pan, cut each sausage into 5 chunks and cook them over a medium high heat for approximately 10 minutes until cooked through.
- Meanwhile, heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the onions for 5 minutes, add the garlic and fennel seeds and cook for another 5 minutes.
- At the same time, cook the penne in the boiling water for 8 - 10 minutes or until tender.
- Drain the pasta and return to the pan with the sausages, onion mixture, crème fraiche, rocket and seasoning; heat together for a couple of minutes before serving.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Mrs B
Worcester Park, Surrey
I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London.
I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too!
I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food!
I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them!
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My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly.
As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too.
If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.