10 Jun Creamy Sausage PEPPADEW® Red Piquanté Pepper Pasta
Creamy Sausage PEPPADEW® Red Piquanté Pepper Pasta
A silky, simple-to-make pasta dish with sweet red piquanté pepper Italian sausage, rigatoni, spinach and a creamy tomato sauce. Bringing comfort any night of the week.
SERVING
Serves 4-6
PREP TIME
10 minutes
COOK TIME
20 minutes
SERVING
Serves 4-6
PREP TIME
10 minutes
COOK TIME
20 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 jar PEPPADEW® Sweet Piquanté Peppers
- 2 tbsp fennel seeds
- 1 tbsp sea salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 450g Italian sausage meat
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 red onion, diced
- 225g rigatoni pasta
- 1 can chopped tomatoes
- 2 tbsp honey
- 100g mascarpone
- Handful baby spinach
- 100ml vegetable stock
- Handful fresh basil
An easy pasta meal that comes together within 30 minutes. A garlicky, creamy tomato sauce packed with a sweet red piquanté pepper Italian sausage, tossed with rigatoni and spinach. The ultimate comfort food.
Method
- Chop half a jar of red PEPPADEW® Sweet Piquanté Peppers.
- Add the chopped piquanté peppers to the fennel seeds, sea salt and black pepper.
- Add the smoked paprika to the sausage meat, combine well and set aside.
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add two of the minced garlic cloves and the chopped red onion. Cook on a medium heat until the onions become translucent.
- Break apart the Italian sausage meat into smaller pieces, add to the pan and saute until the Italian sausage meat is cooked.
- Bring salted water to boil in a large pot, then add rigatoni pasta. Cook using package instructions. Drain and set aside.
- In a new large pan add chopped tomatoes, the last two minced garlic cloves and the honey. Stir and bring to a boil.
- Stir in the mascarpone, followed by the baby spinach. Allow the spinach to wilt down before pouring in the stock.
- Add the cooked sausage and allow the sauce to simmer for a few minutes.
- Remove from the heat and stir in the cooked pasta.
- Garnish the pasta dish with whole red PEPPADEW® Sweet Piquanté Peppers and basil.
