Spring Sausage Toss

Total Time: 21 mins Preparation Time: 6 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 spicy sausage, like italian (i like hot but your choice)
• 1 cup onion, chopped
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 4 garlic cloves, minced
• salt
• 3/4 cup yellow sweet pepper, cored and cut into narrow strips
• 1 (28 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 0.5 (450 g) package fusilli (apprx 3 cups) or 0.5 (450 g) package rigatoni pasta (apprx 3 cups) or 0.5 (450 g) package ziti pasta (apprx 3 cups)
• 1/4 cup fresh mint, chopped
• 1/4 cup fresh basil, coarsely chopped

Recipe

• 1 cook the pasta accoring to instructions and drain. keep warm.
• 2 meanwhile remove sausage meat from the casings.
• 3 heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat., add sausage meat, garlic, salt & chopped onions, stir to crumble meat cook apprx 6 minutes or until the meat is no longer pink.
• 4 add tomatoes to the meat micture, turn heat to high and bring to a boil, add peppers.
• 5 reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
• 6 stir in drained, cooked pasta, mint & basil.
• 7 remove from heat and serve.
• 8 sprinkle with parmesan cheese if you wish.