Italian

Rigatoni with Sausage Ragu

Name: Rigatoni with Sausage Ragu
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 lb rigatoni; 1 lb Italian sausage; 28 oz crushed tomatoes; 2 tbsp tomato paste; 1 onion; 4 garlic cloves; 1 tsp fennel seeds; 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes; 2 tbsp olive oil; 1/2 cup grated parmesan; 1/4 cup chopped basil; 1/2 tsp salt

Marco @marco_bologna

Rigatoni with Sausage Ragu is Italian home cooking, eaten at 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.

45 min Medium High fiber

Watch how to cook Rigatoni with Sausage Ragu

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Serve it with

A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Rigatoni with Sausage Ragu, 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. Rigatoni with Sausage Ragu carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Rigatoni with Sausage Ragu
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: 600 kcal
Protein: 27 g
Carbs: 70 g
Fat: 23 g
Fiber: 5 g
Sugar: 8 g
Sodium: 700 mg
Saturated fat: 8 g

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

When to cook it

Rigatoni with Sausage Ragu takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.