Italian

Pasta con la Salsiccia (Pasta with Sausage and Tomato)

Name: Pasta con la Salsiccia (Pasta with Sausage and Tomato)
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 12 oz rigatoni; 12 oz Italian sausage; 2 cups tomato passata; 1 onion; 2 garlic cloves; 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 1/2 cup grated parmesan

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Pasta con la Salsiccia (Pasta with Sausage and Tomato) is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Medium

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

12 oz rigatoni
12 oz Italian sausage
2 cups tomato passata
1 onion
2 garlic cloves
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup grated parmesan

How to cook it

Squeeze the sausage out of its casing into a wide skillet with the olive oil and brown it over medium heat, breaking it up as it cooks, about 6 minutes.
Add the onion and garlic and cook until softened, about 5 minutes.
Stir in the tomato passata and simmer 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the rigatoni until al dente.
Drain the pasta and toss it through the sauce.
Top with parmesan and serve hot.

Watch how to cook Pasta con la Salsiccia (Pasta with Sausage and Tomato)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

PASTA CON SALSICCIA E POMODORO Facilissima! Ricetta di Chef Max Mariola Play the video

Serve it with

A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pasta con la Salsiccia (Pasta with Sausage and Tomato), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad)
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pasta con la Salsiccia (Pasta with Sausage and Tomato) carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Pasta con la Salsiccia (Pasta with Sausage and Tomato)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Chicken Cacciatore
Gluten	Yes	Butternut Squash Risotto
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 670 kcal
Protein: 29 g
Carbs: 70 g
Fat: 30 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 6 g
Sodium: 590 mg
Saturated fat: 9 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Pasta con la Salsiccia (Pasta with Sausage and Tomato) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.