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Italian Sausage Pasta (easy recipe)

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Here is one of my favorite Italian pasta dishes: Italian Sausage Pasta also known as salsiccia. Salsiccia is a super flavorful Italian sausage traditionally flavored with fennel seeds. 
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Course Main course
Cuisine Italian
Servings 4
Calories 748 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients
 
 

  • 400 g pasta
  • 300 g Italian sausage with fennel seeds, salsiccia
  • 200 g kale
  • 175 ml red wine
  • 800 g tomatoes whole, in can
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • 2 red onions
  • 2 sprigs rosemary
  • 4 sprigs thyme
  • Salt and pepper
  • Olive oil
  • Parmesan

Instructions
 

PREPARE

  • Before using the Italian sausage for the pasta sauce, remove the skin. To do this, slit the sausage slightly lengthwise and remove the skin to loosen the meat. It doesn’t matter if it breaks, as you’ll break it into pieces later.
  • Wash the kale and cut it in small pieces. Chop the onions and cut the garlic cloves finely.

SAUTÉ

  • First, sauté the kale for about 10 minutes with a drizzle of olive oil in a large skillet or dutch oven on medium-high heat. Then set the kale aside. In the same skillet, brown the Italian sausage meat for 2 minutes. Add the diced onions and garlic and sauté for another 2 minutes.

DEGLAZE

  • Pour the red wine in the skillet to loosen all the sausage meat juices that have clung to the bottom of the skillet.

SIMMER

  • Add tomatoes, herbs such as thyme and rosemary, salt and black pepper and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes to 1 hour.

PASTA

  • Shortly before serving, bring a large pot of salted water to boil and cook your pasta al dente as indicated in the package instructions. Reserve a cup of pasta water taken at the end of the cooking.

SERVE

  • Add the cooked pasta and kale to the tomato sauce. Depending on how long you let the tomato sauce simmer, add one tablespoon up to one cup of pasta water to the sauce. Mix well. Finish with a drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese.

Nutrition

Calories: 748kcalCarbohydrates: 92gProtein: 28gFat: 26gSaturated Fat: 9gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gMonounsaturated Fat: 11gCholesterol: 57mgSodium: 605mgPotassium: 1213mgFiber: 9gSugar: 11gVitamin A: 6712IUVitamin C: 82mgCalcium: 206mgIron: 4mg
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