Creamy Sausage Tortellini with Spinach, Tomatoes and Mozzarella cheese sauce – Italian style easy dinner! Buy those pre-made tortellini in the store, smother them with this delicious homemade creamy sauce, and your dinner is ready!
Creamy Mozzarella, Sausage, Spinach, and Tomato Tortellini – easy, delicious pasta dinner that’s easy to make, yet it tastes like something you would get in a good Italian restaurant. You’ll love this recipe and the simplicity of how to make it.
For this recipe, I used fresh pork sausage (uncooked), Jimmy Dean brand, the kind of sausage that comes uncooked in a sausage roll, 16 oz. I used the regular pork sausage, and the Italian sausage can be used too. I like to use this kind of sausage, because it’s flavorful, simple, crumbly and easy to cook.
Sausage is cooked first, the fat is drained, the diced tomatoes from the can (including the liquid from the can) are added. Next, cook the tortellini, and add it to the same skillet. Then, you pretty much combine the rest of the ingredients together. That’s how easy it is to make this sausage pasta dinner.
Enjoy!
Creamy Sausage Tortellini with Spinach, Tomatoes and Mozzarella cheese sauce - Italian style easy dinner! Buy those pre-made tortellini in the store, smother them with this delicious homemade creamy sauce, and your dinner is ready!
- 16 oz Italian pork sausage or regular, fresh, uncooked, I used Jimmy Dean brand
- 14 oz diced tomatoes
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/8 teaspoon paprika
- 2 cups cheese tortellini
- 2 cups spinach uncooked
- 1 cup half and half
- 1/4 cup Mozzarella cheese shredded
- salt to taste
- In a large skillet, cook sausage, crumbling it and stirring, on medium heat until done and no longer pink. Drain the fat from the skillet.
- Add diced tomatoes (with the liquid from the can of diced tomatoes) to the skillet. Add red pepper flakes, paprika. Mix on low simmer.
- In a separate pan, cook tortellini according to the package instructions. Drain, and add them to the pan with the sausage and tomatoes.
- Add uncooked spinach, mix. Add half and half, bring to gentle boil, reduce to simmer, cover with lid and let spinach wilt for a couple of minutes, covered. Remove the lid, stir. Bring the mixture to a gentle medium boil. Add 1/4 cup mozzarella cheese and stir until the cheese melts.
- Taste, and add salt, extra paprika, and extra crushed red pepper flakes, if needed, to taste.
Liked this a lot, it was quick, easy and had great flavor. My kid loved it which helps when you have a finicky eater. I used the tortilla with sausage and cheese in them ( my husband cant ever get enough meat LOL). It was hard to read the recipe on the phone because of so many pop up adds. I find myself looking for good recipes while sitting in the parking lot a the grocery store to run in and do my shopping.
Wondering what the sauce tastes like? Is it sweet because it’s made with half and half?
I’m making this for dinner tonight and wondered if I made a second one do you think it would freeze and bake just as good? I’m trying to load up my freezer with dinners as we have baby number 3 coming in 3 weeks.
I think you could freeze this and then gently bake it to reheat. You might also have to add some extra liquid (half-and-half or milk) to thin out the sauce.
Very delicious dish! I made this for the boys for a celebratory dinner, and we were not disappointed! Thank you for sharing!
So glad you enjoyed this recipe! Thank you for your wonderful review!
This was delicious! It was my first time making a full-on dinner for my family of 10. Everyone loved it!
Thank you, Grace! I am so glad your family enjoyed this dish! 🙂
I made this tonight and it was delicious!
Thank you! I am glad you liked it! 🙂
Thanks for posting this. We’ve tried it today. I changed it a little bit,but it was just pure delicious!