Week night Pasta with sausage that makes dinner super tasty, but quick and easy.
Making this easy week night pasta with sausage is a breeze. Especially if you have the ingredients already prepared. When I make Springtime Quiche, I cook the whole pound of sausage, knowing I don’t need it all but, I could use it in another dish later in the week. It turned out great! And it’s a super quick way to get a meal on the table, and using the right sauce makes it super tasty. I love Carbone pasta sauce. When I make this pasta, I like to use their Arrabbiata sauce, it’s spicy but it has just the right amount of heat. Even my husband, who doesn’t like anything too spicy (he gets the hiccups) loves this sauce.
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Pasta with Sausage
Description
Week night pasta with sausage and spicy sauce.
Ingredients
1 shallot, finely chopped
1 clove of garlic, finely chopped
To make it even quicker, you can skip the onion and garlic, the sauce has plenty of flavor, I do it to flavor to the sausage and skillet)
1 Tbsp Olive Oil
Remaining 10 ounces of sausage
One jar of Carbone Arrabbiata Sauce (I love this sauce, it’s just the right amount of spice and loaded with so much flavor).
1/2 a pkg or about 1 1/4- 1 1/2 cups of dry pasta, (your choice of pasta type)
Instructions
In a large skillet, over medium heat add olive oil
Add onion and garlic (To make it even quicker, you can skip this step, the sauce has plenty of flavor, I do it to flavor the sausage and skillet)
Sautè about 2 mins
Add cooked sausage, working the onion and garlic into the sausage. aprox 4-5 mins
Add entire jar of Carbone sauce
Let simmer over low heat, letting all the flavors melt together.
In the meantime, bring a pot of water to a boil, it’s time to cook the pasta.
Once it’s boiling add salt, aprox. a tbsp.
Add pasta and cook according to package directions for al dente. (I live in a higher altitude so you need to cook pasta 2-3 minutes longer than instructions say, so keep that in mind if you live in a higher altitude).
Once it’s finished cooking, scoop out about 1/2 a cup of the salty, starchy pasta water and set it aside.
Drain the rest of the pasta
Add pasta and salty, starchy water to the sauce.
Stir it together to flavor all the pasta, serve.
I like to top it off with some grated parmesan and fresh basil.
