Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, sweet italian sausage vegetable ziti. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sweet Italian Sausage Vegetable Ziti is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Sweet Italian Sausage Vegetable Ziti is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook sweet italian sausage vegetable ziti using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet Italian Sausage Vegetable Ziti:
- Make ready 4 quarts water
- Prepare 1 tablespoon salt
- Take 12 ounces ziti pasta
- Prepare 2 ounces olive oil
- Prepare 8 ounces sweet Italian turkey sausage link – remove from the skin (pork works great too)
- Get 5 cloves garlic – chopped
- Prepare 1 small Vidalia onion – julienne
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon fennel seed
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon oregano
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- Take 1 small jalapeno (if you like it spicy leave the seeds in) – finely chopped
- Get 1 medium red bell pepper – julienned
- Make ready 3 ounces button mushroom – quartered
- Make ready 14 1/2 ounces petite diced tomatoes
- Make ready 2 ounces tomato paste
- Get 8 ounces heavy cream
- Get as needed salt
- Take 8 leaves basil – chiffonade cut (fine ribbon)
- Make ready as desired Parmesan cheese
Instructions to make Sweet Italian Sausage Vegetable Ziti:
- Bring the water to a boil with the salt. Cook the pasta per the box directions. Drain and place in a covered bowl.
- In a large sauce pot break up the sausage and saute the sausage with the olive oil until lightly browned about 4 minutes over a moderately high heat
- Add the garlic and the onions and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add the fennel seed, oregano and black pepper.
- Add the jalapenos and the red bell peppers and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add the diced tomatoes with juice the tomato paste and heavy cream and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Adjust the seasoning with salt as needed Add the cut basil and add just before service.
- Toss with the pasta and serve.
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