not vegan... Pasta Sauce With Tomatoes and Spicy Italian Sausage

I was watching that Take Home Chef show yesterday and this recipe looked so good. I will not lie to you, the actual recipe involves making your own tagliatelle but I am just going to use good ol' packaged wheat pasta. I am never going to make homemade pasta. No sir. My mom used to make it from scratch when I was little. It was fun but way too hard and too much clean up and prep work for The Girl Who Boiled Chicken.

It is obviously a really easy recipe, but it just looked simple and yummy, the asparagus made it look extra tasty.

Pasta Sauce With Tomatoes and Spicy Italian Sausage

2 tablespoons/30 ml olive oil
2 large garlic cloves, minced
1/2 cup/100 ml dry white wine
6 ripe plum tomatoes (about 1 1/4 pounds/600 g), coarsely chopped
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 pound/455 g spicy Italian sausages, casings removed, meat broken into bite size pieces
1 pound/455 g very thin asparagus, trimmed
¼ cup/5 g coarsely chopped fresh Italian parley

To prepare the pasta sauce:

Heat the oil in a heavy large sauce pan over medium heat. Add the garlic and sauté for 1 minute or until tender. Add the white wine and simmer for about 3 minutes or until reduced by about half.

Stir in the tomatoes and sprinkle with ¾ teaspoon of salt. Bring the mixture to a simmer. Decrease the heat to medium-low. Cover and simmer gently for about 45 minutes or until a chunky sauce forms, stirring occasionally and smashing tomatoes.

Add the sausage pieces and cook for 7 minutes. Add the asparagus spears and cook for about 5 minutes longer or until crisp-tender. Stir in the parsley. Season the sauce to taste with salt and pepper.


here is the link to the actual website and original recipe
take home chef

I think T would pass out in shock if I actually made this.