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Quick-fire sausage & pasta fiesta
This is a little bit spicy, a lot sausagey and reassuringly saucy. Just sizzle it all up in a pan, throw in your cooked pasta and finish with a sprinkle of spring onions. You get to kick back with a satisfying bowl of comfort food, while your taste buds get to party!
SWK: Source of fibre
SWK: High protein
Plants 5
quick cook
Serving size
Ingredients
- 3 spring onion
- 1 tbsp Mexican spice mix (Paprika, Cumin, Onion Powder, Sea Salt, Garlic Granules, Pepper Black, Pimento, Thyme, Oregano, Chilli Powders, Paprika Extract E160c. )
- 360g Slimming World Pork Sausages (Mustard, Sesame) (pork (78%), water, vegetable fibre, salt, yeast extract, herbs, stabiliser (diphosphates), spices, flavouring, antioxidant (ascorbic acid), Filled into pork collagen casings.)
- 1 pepper
- 4 tsp garlic paste (Garlic, Sea Salt, Citric Acid)
- 200g passata (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 1 chicken stock cube (use half) (Celery) (sea salt, potato starch*, sustainable palm oil* , sugar*, chicken fat* 3.5%, yeast extract, natural flavour, chicken meat* 1%, herbs & spices* (turmeric*, black pepper*, parsley*, rosemary*), onion powder*. * Organic ingredient)
- 1 onion
- ½ tsp chilli flakes
- 200g pasta (Wheat) (Durum Wheat Semolina (Wheat Gluten))
Nutritional Information
Calories: 631
Protein: 48g
Carbs: 88g
Fat: 8.8g
Ingredients
- 400g pasta (Wheat) (Durum Wheat Semolina (Wheat Gluten))
- 720g Slimming World Pork Sausages (Mustard, Sesame) (pork (78%), water, vegetable fibre, salt, yeast extract, herbs, stabiliser (diphosphates), spices, flavouring, antioxidant (ascorbic acid), Filled into pork collagen casings.)
- 2 onion
- 5 spring onion
- 2 tbsp Mexican spice mix (Paprika, Cumin, Onion Powder, Sea Salt, Garlic Granules, Pepper Black, Pimento, Thyme, Oregano, Chilli Powders, Paprika Extract E160c. )
- 1 tsp chilli flakes
- 8 x garlic paste (Garlic, Sea Salt, Citric Acid)
- 400g passata (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 1 chicken stock cube (Celery) (sea salt, potato starch*, sustainable palm oil* , sugar*, chicken fat* 3.5%, yeast extract, natural flavour, chicken meat* 1%, herbs & spices* (turmeric*, black pepper*, parsley*, rosemary*), onion powder*. * Organic ingredient)
- 2 pepper
Nutritional Information
Calories: 631
Protein: 48g
Carbs: 88g
Fat: 8.8g
Quick-fire sausage & pasta fiesta
This is a little bit spicy, a lot sausagey and reassuringly saucy. Just sizzle it all up in a pan, throw in your cooked pasta and finish with a sprinkle of spring onions. You get to kick back with a satisfying bowl of comfort food, while your taste buds get to party!
Cook time:
20 mins
Cuisine:
Italian
Food group:
Pork
Allergens: Wheat
Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- 1 saucepan
- 1 large non stick frying pan
Get the pasta going
- Cook the pasta in boiling water for 8-9 mins, then drain.
Start chopping
- Meanwhile, remove the skins from the sausages and break them into small pieces.
- On a separate board, peel and finely dice the onions. Deseed the peppers and dice into 1cm squares, and thinly slice the spring onions.
Ace the base!
- Spritz a large non-stick frying pan with cooking spray and put it over a medium-high heat. Fry the sausages, diced onions and peppers for 5 mins.
- Stir in the spice mix, chilli flakes (to taste) and garlic paste and cook for 1 min.
Time to simmer
- Add the passata, crumble in half the stock cube, pour in 200ml water (use all the stock and 300ml water for 4 portions) and stir well. Simmer for 5 mins, until the sausages are cooked through.
- Mix in the pasta and cook for 1 min.
Finish your dish
- Serve the sausage and pasta fiesta sprinkled with the spring onions.