Pink Sauce With Sausage And Pine Nuts Over Penne Recipes

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil; add penne and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender yet firm to the bite, about 11 minutes.
• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat, and cook and stir sausage, onion, green bell pepper, red bell pepper, orange bell pepper, and mushrooms until vegetables are tender, about 10 minutes.
• Stir diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, minced garlic, garlic powder, oregano, basil, salt, black pepper, and red pepper flakes into vegetable mixture; bring to a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes.
• Drain pasta and spoon onto plates and top with sauce mixture.

Steps:

• In a large deep fry/saute pan, add 1/4 cup water and sausage.
• Cook till just cooked through.
• Water will start to evaporate.
• When cooked through, remove from pan one at a time and cut into bite sized pieces.
• Return sausage to pan to brown them.
• When sausage AND pan are brown, move sausage to paper towels and set aside.
• Add 1/4 cup more water to pan and stir up all the brown.
• Simmer sauce on low from now on.
• While doing that, in a small saute pan, heat oil and saute garlic for about 3 minutes, add to browned water.
• Add also sausage, wine, tomato sauce, chopped tomatoes, salt and pepper.
• While this is simmering roast the peppers: Pre heat oven to BROIL.
• Cut each pepper in half longways, scoop out middle, place on olive oil coated cookie sheet face down and brush skins with olive oil.
• Broil for 10 minutes or until skin is black.
• Remove, cool, peel skin, chop them up.
• Add peppers to sauce.
• Start boiling water for Penne.
• Chop up sun dried tomatoes and add to sauce.
• Now start chopping basil.
• I find it easiest to use kitchen shears.
• Set basil aside.
• Toast pine nuts: In a small DRY fry pan, add pine nuts, toast on medium heat till browned.
• Remove from pan, put in small bowl for serving.
• Add Penne to water, hopefully it is boiling now.
• 5 minutes after adding Penne to water, add basil and cream to sauce, stirring constantly.
• Heat only for 5 more minutes.
• Penne and sauce will be done at the same time.
• Spoon sauce& sausage over Penne and sprinkle pine nuts on top.
• Serve with garlic bread and salad.

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large nonstick skillet over med-high heat until just smoking.
• Add in sausage and cook, breaking apart the meat, until lightly browned and no longer pink, 3-5 minutes.
• Stir in garlic; cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
• Stir in the water, broth, sun-dried tomatoes, and 1/2 teaspoon salt, then add in the pasta.
• Increase heat to high and cook at a vigorous simmer, stirring often, until the pasta is tender and the liquid has thickened, about 15-18 minutes.
• Stir in the spinach, a handful at a time, and cook until wilted.
• Off the heat, stir in the Parmesan cheese and pine nuts.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper; serve.

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to boil and cook the penne until al dente; drain well and do NOT rinse.
• After you put the water on to boil, remove sausage meat from the casings, crumble, and set aside.
• In a large skillet, heat olive oil over medium-high heat.
• Add garlic and cayenne and saute for approximately 30 seconds, then add sausage meat to skillet.
• Cook until sausage meat is no longer pink (about 5 minutes or so).
• Add cream, salt, pepper and nutmeg to skillet and turn heat to high to bring mixture to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer, gently, until the cream reduces and the sauce thickens a bit; it takes about 10 minutes.
• Place cooked penne in a large serving bowl (it's nice if you warm it first) and pour sauce over; add butter and cheese to bowl and combine all well.
• Taste; add more salt and/or pepper if you wish.
• Sprinkle chopped herbs over top and serve.

Steps:

• Heat oil in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then add sausage meat and cook, stirring to break up large chunks, until meat is browned and just cooked through, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer meat to a bowl using a slotted spoon and add bell pepper and garlic to fat in skillet. Reduce heat to moderate and cook, stirring occasionally, until pepper is just tender and garlic is golden, 5 to 6 minutes.
• Add wine and sausage and simmer, scraping up brown bits on bottom of skillet with a wooden spoon, until liquid is reduced by half, about 2 minutes.
• Add tomatoes with their juice and black pepper and simmer, breaking up tomatoes with spoon, until sauce is slightly thickened, 6 to 8 minutes.
• While sauce is cooking, cook pasta in a 6- to 8-quart pot of boiling salted water until al dente. Reserve 1/2 cup pasta-cooking water, then drain pasta in a colander and return to pot. Add sauce and cheese to pasta and toss to coat. Add cooking water if necessary to moisten. Season pasta with salt and pepper and serve with additional cheese.