Spicy Sausage Pasta Sauce with Linguini

Description about pasta

Ingredients

1 Can of Diced and Spiced Tomatoes

2 Spicy Italian Sausages

1 Box of Pappardelle or Fettuccine Pasta

  • 1 Onion
  • 3 Garlic Cloves
  • 1 Red Bell Pepper
  • 4 Cremini Mushrooms
  • 1/2 Bottle of Dry Red Wine
  • Olive Oil
  • Salt/Black Pepper/Basil

Apparatus

  • Cooking Pan – wide and flat, 2 inch deep
  • Tall Pot
  • Strainer
  • Wooden Spoon

Instructions

  1. Finely chop the onion, garlic and red bell pepper.
  2. Remove mushroom stems and chop the mushroom heads into thick slices.
  3. Add a tablespoon of olive oil to cooking pan and set stove to medium-high.
  4. Cook onion and garlic in pan for 5 minutes.
  5. Add red bell pepper to pan and continue cooking for 10 minutes.
  6. Remove sausages from their casings and pull them apart into small pieces about the size of a grape.
  7. Add sausage pieces to pan and continue cooking for 5 minutes.
  8. Add mushrooms and continue cooking for 5 minutes.
  9. Boil water in tall pot.
  10. Empty can of tomatoes in pan and add black pepper.
  11. Break up tomato pieces with wooden spoon.
  12. Pour 1/2 bottle of red wine into pan.
  13. Mix and add salt to taste.
  14. Put pasta in tall pot, strain after 10-12 minutes.
  15. Set stove to high and cook until tomato juice in pan is half the depth of the pan. (If too much water is boiled off, add more red wine).
  16. Remove pan from heat and add basil to taste.