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Pasta Sauce with Italian Sausage
This one's for your next pasta dinner: a powerful pasta sauce with italian sausage. Turn leftover cooked sausage into a tomato sausage ragu!
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time 2 hours
Servings 2 people
Calories per serving 862 kcal
Ingredients
- 9 oz dry pasta (250 g)
- 10,5 oz spicy Italian beef sausages (300 g), fresh or cooked
- ½ cup beef stock (120 ml)
- 10,5 oz canned chopped tomatoes (300 g)
- ¼ cup red wine (60 ml)
- fatty chunk serrano ham optional
- 1 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 tsp fennel seeds
- 3 bay leaves
- 5 sprigs fresh thyme
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 large garlic clove peeled
- pepper
- salt
Instructions
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Add the StirAssist to the bowl of the Cook Processor. Fill it with 6 cups (1,5 l) of water. Season with a pinch of salt. Set temperature 120°C and time 20 minutes. Then press Start and set speed 1. In the end add the pasta to the boiling water.
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Reduce then temperature to 100°C and the time as instructed on the package of the pasta. Then press Start and set speed INT (interval). Once finished, check the tenderness of the pasta and strain it. Refresh the pasta under cold tap water. Now for the sauce. If you use fresh sausages, remove the meat. Discard the casings. If you are using cooked sausages, chop them up (no need to remove the skins). Then add the cooked sausage and garlic to the bowl of the Cook Processor fitted with the MultiBlade.
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Close the bowl and press Pulse for just a couple of seconds to chop the cooked sausage roughly. Remove the MultiBlade and add the StirAssist. Then add the pureed tomatoes, tomato paste, thyme, oregano, beef stock, chunk of serrano ham (optional), bay leaves and a dash of pepper and salt.
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Close the bowl and select STEW P2. Press Start to activate the program. After that, press Cancel to exit the keep warm mode. Then check the seasoning and add extra pepper or salt to taste if necessary.
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Add the cooked pasta to the sausage tomato sauce.
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Close the lid and set time 2 minutes. Then press Start and set speed 3. Scoop the pasta and sausage sauce onto plates and serve hot.
