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ROBUST ITALIAN SAUSAGE & PASTA

ROBUST ITALIAN SAUSAGE & PASTA
My husband Jim has started to take a interest in cooking. This is a recipe he made up. This simple dish is packed full of flavor. Add a salad and some garlic bread and you have a wonderful meal to serve family and friends Jim was sitting around one evening and came up with this recipe, asking my opinion. I say he came up with a WINNER. You can put this all together in the slow cooker, let
4 ServingsPrep: 30 min. Cook: 240 min.

Ingredients

  • ROBUST ITALIAN SAUSAGE & PASTA Serves: 4-6 Source: Jim Reed Effort: Easy 1 jar (1 lb. 10 oz.) Ragu Robusto! Sweet Italian Sausage and Cheese 1 can (10 oz.) diced tomatoes with green chilis’ 2 heaping teaspoons of minced garlic 1 t. Italian seasoning Salt to taste 1 lb. Italian sausage (skinned)
  • grilled and cut in half at a diagonal 1 large green pepper (julienne) 1 med. yellow onion (julienne & diced small) (divided) 2 c. uncooked rotini pasta or penne pasta

Directions

  • INSTRUCTIONS:
  • Mix in a slow cooker, that has been sprayed with a non-stick cooking
  • spray, the sauce, diced tomatoes with green chili’s, minced garlic,
  • about half of the onion that was diced, Italian seasoning & salt.
  • Then lay your Italian sausage on top of the sauce. Add the julienne
  • green pepper and the rest of the yellow onion that was julienne.
  • Start the slow cooker on high for about an hour. Then put on low for
  • about 3 hours. Then open the lid, and stir things around a little.
  • Then let finish cooking about 30 minutes to an hour.
  • Just before you serve this, cook your pasta according to package
  • directions and drain.
  • Put pasta on your plate and cover with this wonderful sauce.
  • Enjoy
© Taste of Home 2012

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ROBUST ITALIAN SAUSAGE & PASTA (continued)

Directions (continued)

  • “Leadership is getting someone to do something that they wouldn't
  • have done until you encouraged them to do it”
  • Yield: serves 4
Wine: Full-Bodied Red Wine: Enjoy this recipe with a full-bodied red wine such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot or Syrah.
© Taste of Home 2012