Rustic Walnut Rapini Pasta
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 1⁄2 lb hot Italian sausage, meat, crumbled
- 1 cup red onion, sliced
- 4 garlic cloves, monced
- 1 cup walnut halves, toasted
- 1⁄2 lb rigatoni pasta
- 5 cups rapini, roughly chopped
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- 1⁄2 cup parmesan cheese or 1/2 cup pecorino cheese, grated
- chili flakes
directions
- In large skillet, brown sausage meat over medium-high heat, breaking up pieces with the back of a spoon. Add onion and cook until softened, about 5 minutes.
- Stir in garlic and cook for 1 minute. Stir in walnuts.
- Meanwhile, cook pasta according to package directions. Add rapini during the last minute of cooking. Reserve 1/2 cup of the pasta water in a measuring cup.
- Drain pasta and rapini in a colander.
- Add reserved pasta water, lemon zest, and Parmesan cheese in the walnut mixture. Stir in pasta and rapini.
- Serve with additional Parmesan cheese and chili flakes, if desired.
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