Portobello and sausage vodka sauce pasta

Here is an amazing dish that takes less than 20 minutes to prepare that will really wow you’re guests.

INGREDIENTS:

1 jar of vodka sauce (Classico has a very good flavor for this recipe).

3 hot Italian sausages, not precooked!

10 small to medium sized Portobello mushrooms.

1 box of Farfalle (bowtie) pasta.

1 tbsp olive oil.

1 pinch of sea salt.

Parmesan cheese, I prefer fresh but the shaker type works too.

PREPARATION:

Start a large pot of water, with a pinch of sea salt, on the stove on high and while you’re doing you’re other prep work you want to bring it to a boil.

Pour the jar of sauce into a medium sized pot and place on medium high heat.

Clean and cut the Portobello mushrooms into ¼ to ½ inch disks, unless you bought precut. Once they are cut up place them into the pot with the sauce then gently stir the Portobello’s so they are covered by the sauce. Reduce the heat to medium keep an eye on the sauce occasionally stirring, try not to let it go to a boil.

Cut up the sausages into half inch disks, if you don’t have a decently sharp knife for cutting raw sausage clean kitchen scissors work very well. Pour the olive oil in a sauce pan on medium heat then add the cut up sausages. Keep an eye on the sausage as you don’t want them to burn but you do want them to develop a light char to both sides of each piece. Once they are cooked drain the grease/oil from the pieces then place the sausages into the pot with the sauce. Reduce the heat to low and keep occasionally gently stirring the sauce with all the ingredients in it.

Pour the Farfalle pasta into your large pot of boiling water then gently stir. Keep stirring every few minutes to make sure the pasta does not stick to the pot.

The pasta should be done in about 13 minutes or so. During this time keep occasionally stirring the pasta and the sauce. When the pasta is done place it in a strainer to separate the pasta from the water. The sauce will be done at the same time as the pasta.

SERVING:

In serving this dish I generally place a few ladles of pasta on a pasta plate then a ladle or two of the sauce over the pasta. Top it off by adding some grated parmesan then serve. -HD

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