Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, caprese pasta with sausage. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook caprese pasta with sausage using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Caprese Pasta with Sausage:
- Prepare Sauce/ topping
- Take 1 packages Garlic and herb chicken sausages or similar (4 links), sliced into thick rounds
- Get 6 clove Garlic, chopped
- Prepare 1 packages Cherry tomatoes halved
- Take 1 bunch Fresh basil
- Get 1 packages Mozzarella ball, cubed
- Prepare Fresh Parmesan, shaved
- Make ready 1 Salt & pepper
- Take 1/4 cup Olive oil
- Make ready 3 tbsp Raw pine nuts, crushed
- Prepare Pasta
- Prepare 1 packages Fusilli pasta
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Instructions to make Caprese Pasta with Sausage:
- Heat oil in large pan. Add sausage slices, cook on medium until edges are start to brown, stirring occasionally. Add garlic and continue to cook for a few minutes on medium to low heat.
- Bring water to a boil in large pot while cooking sausages. Follow pasta instructions
- Once sausage is browned and garlic is soft, add large handfuls of fresh basil leaves. Fill the entire pan, and simmer on med- low heat until basil shrinks.
- Add cherry tomato halves, season with salt and pepper, add crushed pine nuts, continue to cook on med-low heat until tomatoes are warm.
- Once pasta is cooked, drain and set aside
- Add cubes of mozzarella to the sauce right before taking off the heat. Let sit for 2 minutes or until cheese starts to melt, then toss pasta topping into large pot of pasta. Drizzle more olive oil into pasta. Serve and add desired amount of fresh sliced Parmesan. Great served warm or cold. Enough for 4-6 people
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