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Corkscrew Pasta With Sausage And Fennel Recipe


Corkscrew Pasta With Sausage And Fennel Recipe
An easy and satisfying pasta dish. Good Housekeeping.

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Ingredients
  • 1 medium-size Fennel bulb (about 1 pound)
  • 2 medium-size Carrots
  • 1 medium-size Onion
  • 1/2 pound Hot (or Mild) Italian-sausage links
  • 1 16-ounce package Corkscrew or Rotelle Macaroni
  • Salt
  • 2 Tbl. Olive oil
  • 1 28-ounce can Italian Plum Tomatoes
  • 1 Tbl. chopped Parsley for garnish

Directions
  1. Rinse fennel with running cold water. Cut off and discard root end and stalks from fennel bulb. Cut bulb in half through root end; then place each half cut-side down and thinly slice lengthwise.
  2. Finely chop carrots.
  3. Dice onion.
  4. Remove casings from sausages.
  5. In saucepot, prepare corkscrew macaroni as label directs, using 1 Tbl. salt water.
  6. Drain corkscrews, reserving 1/2 cup pasta cooking water. Return corkscrews to saucepot; keep warm.
  7. Meanwhile, in 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat, cook sausage until browned, stirring frequently to break up sausage. With slotted spoon, remove sausage to medium size bowl.
  8. In drippings in skillet, cook fennel and 1/4 tsp. salt, stirring frequently, adding 1 Tbl. extra olive oil if necessary, until fennel is tender-crisp and begins to brown. Remove to bowl with sausage; keep warm.
  9. In same skillet over medium-high heat, in hot olive oil, cook carrots and onion until tender.
  10. Add tomatoes with their liquid, 1/2 tsp salt, and reserved pasta cooking water, stirring to break up tomatoes.
  11. Over high heat, heat to boiling. Reduce heat to low and simmer, uncovered, 10 minutes.
  12. Stir tomato sauce into pasta in saucepot.
  13. Spoon pasta onto platter; top with sausage and fennel.
  14. Sprinkle with chopped parsley if you like. Toss before serving.

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Comments


I have never tried fennel before. I bought some today (trying to expand my horizons). This sounds like the perfect one to try it with!


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