Recipe: Italian Sausage Rigatoni with Spicy Cream Sauce

By JENNALYNN SAESEE

Staff Writer

Ingredients:

-12 oz rigatoni pasta

-1 tablespoon olive oil

-1 medium onion, chopped

-1 pound Italian sausage

-3 cloves of garlic, minced

-1 (14.5) oz can of diced tomatoes

-1 (8 oz) can of tomato sauce

-1 tablespoon tomato paste

-½ teaspoon dried basil

-½ teaspoon salt

-½ teaspoon red pepper flakes

-¼ teaspoon black pepper

-½ cup heavy cream

-½ cup grated parmesan cheese

Instructions:

  1. Heat olive oil in a large pan and cook the onion until it starts to soften. Add sausage, and break it into pieces with a wooden spoon as it cooks. 
  2. When the sausage is no longer pink, add garlic and cook for 1 minute. Drain off any excess fat.
  3. Add diced tomatoes, tomato paste, basil salt, red pepper flakes, and black pepper, and simmer until thickened, about 15 minutes. 
  4. Meanwhile, cook pasta accordingly to the package directions. Drain and place drained pasta in a large bowl.
  5. Add cream and simmer for another 5 minutes, turn heat to low, and stir in parmesan cheese. 
  6. Pour sauce over pasta and toss to coat.

Prep: 5 mins 

Cook: 25 mins

Total: 30 mins 

Servings: 6

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