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Penne With Sausage and Tomato Cream Sauce
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5:30 Challenge / 5 ingredients / 30 minutes
Ly K. Eilering of Kennesaw's combination of tomato sauce and cream, most often found in pasta vodka sauces, is a winning one. The cream mellows the tomato’s acidity and adds richness. Eilering gives the dish extra homemade twists by including sausage to add heft and fresh basil to bring the sauce to life with a bit of astringency.
Eilering uses breakfast sausage roll and canned tomato sauce, but to add seasoning, I chose spicy Italian sausage and jarred pasta sauce. Pick what’s most appealing to your palate to create a great comfort food dish.
The recipe can easily be halved, but in our house, leftovers made great lunches. -- Jeanne Besser
Hands on time: Total time: 30 minutes Serves: 8
Ingredients:
1 pound penne or other shaped pasta
1 pound breakfast sausage roll or other sausage
1 (15-ounce) can tomato sauce or 2 cups pasta sauce
1/2 to 3/4 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil
Instructions:
Prepare pasta according to package directions. In a large skillet, brown sausage, breaking it into some smaller pieces and some larger chunks. When cooked through, add tomato sauce and bring to a boil, scraping the bottom of the pan to incorporate any sausage that has stuck . Add cream, and season to taste with salt and pepper. Simmer for 10 minutes to thicken sauce. Add the basil and pasta to the sauce. Stir to coat pasta with sauce.
Notes:
To make the meal: green salad and Italian bread
Nutrition:
Per serving: 514 calories (percent of calories from fat, 52), 15 grams protein, 47 grams carbohydrates, 2 grams fiber, 29 grams fat (12 grams saturated), 59 milligrams cholesterol, 291 milligrams sodium.
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