Pink Sauce With Sausage And Pine Nuts Over Penne

Total Time: 2 hrs Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 lb penne pasta, barilla brand
• 1 1/3 lbs lamb sausage
• 3 garlic cloves, chopped
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 4 ounces pine nuts, toasted (directions below)
• 1 (29 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 2 red bell peppers, roasted and chopped
• 6 plum tomatoes, diced
• 1/4 dry red wine
• 1/8 cup sun-dried tomato, chopped (about 9 pieces)
• 1 cup light cream
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 1/4 cup fresh basil, chopped (only use fresh!!!)

Recipe

• 1 in a large deep fry/saute pan, add 1/4 cup water and sausage.
• 2 cook till just cooked through.
• 3 water will start to evaporate.
• 4 when cooked through, remove from pan one at a time and cut into bite sized pieces.
• 5 return sausage to pan to brown them.
• 6 when sausage and pan are brown, move sausage to paper towels and set aside.
• 7 add 1/4 cup more water to pan and stir up all the brown.
• 8 simmer sauce on low from now on.
• 9 while doing that, in a small saute pan, heat oil and saute garlic for about 3 minutes, add to browned water.
• 10 add also sausage, wine, tomato sauce, chopped tomatoes, salt and pepper.
• 11 while this is simmering roast the peppers: pre heat oven to broil.
• 12 cut each pepper in half longways, scoop out middle, place on olive oil coated cookie sheet face down and brush skins with olive oil.
• 13 broil for 10 minutes or until skin is black.
• 14 remove, cool, peel skin, chop them up.
• 15 add peppers to sauce.
• 16 start boiling water for penne.
• 17 chop up sun dried tomatoes and add to sauce.
• 18 now start chopping basil.
• 19 i find it easiest to use kitchen shears.
• 20 set basil aside.
• 21 toast pine nuts: in a small dry fry pan, add pine nuts, toast on medium heat till browned.
• 22 remove from pan, put in small bowl for serving.
• 23 add penne to water, hopefully it is boiling now.
• 24 5 minutes after adding penne to water, add basil and cream to sauce, stirring constantly.
• 25 heat only for 5 more minutes.
• 26 penne and sauce will be done at the same time.
• 27 spoon sauce& sausage over penne and sprinkle pine nuts on top.
• 28 serve with garlic bread and salad.