Here’s a main dish recipe you’ll keep at the front of your recipe box: Sausage Pepper Pasta Toss. It’s a good one for a quick and easy, tasty weeknight dinner that everyone loves. (Kids too!) And only five ingredients. We often had this for dinner growing up, and I’ve been making it for my guys for years. If you you can boil water, you can make this simple Sausage Pepper Pasta Toss. I’ve tasted bland pasta dishes. This is not one of those. The sausage, peppers and parmesan cheese all insure a dish bursting with flavor.

Cook rotini pasta to al dente, according to box instructions. While that cooks, prepare the sausage, pepper and cheese sauce below.

Saute the sausage.

While the sausage cooks, dice the peppers.

Add peppers in with the sausage and cook for several minutes.

Add in half and half and grated parmesan cheese to sausage pepper mixture. Cook for several minutes, melting the parmesan and to thicken the sauce.

Toss with the steaming pasta rotini, and sprinkle with extra parmesan cheese. You’re done! Add a salad or green veggie and you have a nutritious, satisfying hot meal for fall and winter. Your family will thank you!

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Sausage Pepper Pasta Toss

Sausage Pepper Pasta Toss. The half and half combines with the parmesan making a creamy sauce for the pasta and sausage. So flavorful!

Course Main Dish

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes minutes

Total Time 30 minutes minutes

Servings 4 -6

Author Allie Taylor

Ingredients

• 8 ounces pasta rotini cooked and drained
• 1 green pepper and 1 red pepper seeded and diced
• 1 cup half and half or milk, for a lighter version
• 1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese plus extra for serving
• 1 pound sweet italian sausage

Instructions

• Cook pasta according to the box instructions.
• While pasta is cooking, prepare the sausage mixture.
• Cook sausage in a large frying pan, 'til sausage is cooked through.
• Drain all visible fat.
• Add in diced peppers and cook several minutes.
• Add in half and half and parmesan cheese.
• Cook for several more minutes to allow cheese to melt and thicken the sauce.
• Combine hot sausage pepper mixture with hot cooked and drained rotini.
• Serve with extra parmesan grated on top.

Notes

Adding in extra pasta stretches this recipe to serve more.

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“Soup is good food.” That’s what Campbell’s says anyway. And I agree 100%. I love a good hearty soup that eats like a meal. This is the one.

Bursting with flavor, Hearty Italian Sausage Soup makes a great meal all by itself. The Italian sausage does that. But the secret ingredient? Parmesan cheese. It ties the tomatoes and sausage together beautifully. This thick and chunky soup is perfect for frigid winter nights and will have your family coming back for seconds. It’s what’s for dinner!

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Hearty Italian Sausage Soup

Hearty Italian Sausage Soup bursts with flavor and eats like a meal. Parmesan cheese is the secret ingredient.

Course Soup

Cuisine Italian

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Total Time 35 minutes minutes

Servings 6

Author Allie Taylor

Ingredients

• 6-8 sweet Italian sausage links 1 pound or more
• 1 large onion vertically sliced (into crescents)
• 7 cups water
• 1 Tablespoon beef bouillon granules or 3 beef bouillon cubes
• 28 ounces crushed tomatoes
• 1/2 green pepper diced
• 1/4 teaspoon oregano
• 1/4 teaspoon basil
• 1/8 teaspoon pepper
• 2 small zucchini cubed
• 2 ounces linguine broken into 2-3 inch pieces
• 2 Tablespoons grated parmesan cheese

Instructions

• Remove sausage from skins and cook fully in a large stockpot or Dutch oven.
• Drain off most of the fat.
• Add in sliced onion to the sausage, and sauté 'til onion is slightly soft.
• Add water, bouillon granules or cubes, tomatoes, green pepper, oregano, basil and pepper.
• Bring to a full boil, then add zucchini, linguine and parmesan cheese.
• Cover and cook until pasta is ready according to the package directions. Stir occasionally to prevent pasta from sticking. Enjoy!

Notes

Use a different kind of pasta if you like.
Break the sausage into bite size pieces while sautéing.
This recipe makes a very generous six main dish servings.
It doubles easily, and also freezes well.

Nothing smells better than onions and sausage sautéing!  Mmmmm…

We like to eat this soup with my Honey Grain Bread! (I’ll have to share that recipe soon.)

Add salad and it works perfectly for company too. We love this hearty soup. It’s been a staple and favorite of our family for many years, hope it is for yours too!

You may also like: New England Bacon Corn Chowder

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