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Easy 30 Minute Sausage and Pepper Pasta

Hearty and rich Sausage and pepper pasta is a quick and simple 30-minute dinner using Aldi ingredients. You're gonna love this one!
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Course: pasta
Cuisine: Italian
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 4 Servings
Author: Deborah Rainford

Ingredients

  • 400 g (6 ⅓ cups) rigatoni
  • Italian style chicken sausages, casings removed
  • 2 tablespoons (2 tablespoons) olive oil
  • 1 (1) brown onion, diced
  • 3 cloves (3 cloves) garlic, minced
  • 1 (1) tin chopped tomatoes
  • 2 tablespoons (2 tablespoons) tomato puree
  • ¼ cup (¼ cup) beef or chicken stock made with a stock cube *see notes
  • ¼ cup (¼ cup) red wine, optional *see notes
  • 3 (3) sprigs fresh thyme, leaves picked
  • ½ tablespoon (½ tablespoon) dried oregano
  • ½ tablespoon (½ tablespoon) Italian herb mix
  • 1 (1) bell pepper, yellow or red, thinly sliced
  • Parmesan cheese and parsley for serving

Instructions

  • Heat the oil in a cast-iron pan and brown the chicken sausage meat. Once the sausage meat has browned add in the garlic and onion and brown well scraping up any brown bits from the bottom of the pan. Add in the thyme, oregano and Italian herb mix. Pour in the beef stock and bring to a gentle simmer scraping up any brown bits from the bottom of the pan. Mix everything well. 
  • Bring everything to a gentle simmer and adjust the seasoning. Add the pasta to the pan tossing well to coat everything. Add in some pasta water if your sauce needs a little thinning. 
  • Top with parmesan and chopped parsley and serve with garlic bread.

Notes

  1. It will seem like a lot of stock to have one cube dissolved in only ¼ cup water but it gets well mixed throughout the whole sauce. So, we add tons of flavour using a whole cube but limited liquid using only ¼ cup. 
  2. I’ve used the powdered parmesan cheese because sometimes it’s just what you need, but feel free to use the fresh stuff or something like Grana Padano if you prefer. 
  3. Any type of noodle works with this pasta recipe. Long noodles like tagliatelle are really great because the sauce really clings to them. 

Nutrition

Calories: 500kcal | Carbohydrates: 86g | Protein: 15g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 182mg | Potassium: 617mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 1116IU | Vitamin C: 51mg | Calcium: 89mg | Iron: 3mg
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