Cheesey sausage pasta bake
This satiating meal is perfect for a weeknight dinner because it provides everything you need in one meal: protein, carbs, and fats. It has a great amount of nutrients and the whole family will love it!
You can substitute other types of meat like chicken or ground beef, and for more fiber, use chickpea, lentil, or whole wheat pasta.
Ingredients
- Ingredients
- 22 ozs Sausage (or sausage meat)
- 1 onion (peeled and finely diced)
- 1 clove garlic cloves (peeled and finely diced)
- 1 chili pepper (trimmed and finely chopped)
- 2 Tbsps olive oil
- 1 ½ cups chopped Tomatoes (from a can)
- 8 cups Fusilli
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 1 ball Mozzarella
- salt
- freshly ground peppers
- Basil (to garnish)
Preparation steps
Squeeze the sausages out of their skins and break into pieces (or break the sausage meat into pieces). Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the pieces of sausage meat until golden brown. Take out of the pan.
Put the onion, garlic and chili into the pan and sweat until soft. Add the tomatoes, return the sausage meat balls to the pan, cover, and simmer gently for about 10 minutes.
Mix with the sausage meat and tomato sauce, season to taste with salt and pepper, and transfer to a baking dish.