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
Ingredients
- 16 oz Italian pork sausage or regular, fresh, uncooked, I used Jimmy Dean brand
- 14 oz diced tomatoes
- ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- ⅛ teaspoon paprika
- 2 cups cheese tortellini
- 2 cups spinach uncooked
- 1 cup half and half
- ¼ cup Mozzarella cheese shredded
- salt to taste
Instructions
- 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 ¼ 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.
Nutrition
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Delish! This is a wonderful recipe and we all loved it!
So glad you liked it, Tracey! 🙂
My family loved it, added a little Parmesan by accident. Sauce was so nice sopped up with a little bread. Big hit, so easy, thank you.
Mireille, I am so happy to hear the recipe was a success! Thank you so much for taking the time to share your review. ❤️❤️
I made this today. It's delicious . I did need to add some chicken stock.
Thank you, Judith, so glad you enjoyed this recipe! 🙂
I thought this was delicious! We used a spicy Italian sausage and I also tossed some garlic powder over it while simmering. Since I used a pint size jar of my canned tomatoes-I added 3 tablespoons of tomato paste to thicken it up some. Easy and very tasty...
Kim, thank you so much for taking the time to share your wonderful feedback and some tips on how to thicken up the sauce. ❤️
I posted this earlier but I think it got deleted. What can I add to make it more of a soup, wasn't very much liquid. Thank you. It was delilcious!
Made this tonight and it was delicious. One question there is not much liquid in the soup, what can be added for it to be more soupy? Thank you!
Since I used a 16 oz jar of tomatoes that I "canned" over the summer, mine had a little more liquid in it, so I added a couple tablespoons of tomato paste to thicken it up some...but if u wanted more liquid I would suggest a little chicken broth or just water, also additional half and half. Don't drain your tomatoes either-use that juice.
Kim, thank you for your helpful input! ❤️ So many great tips. And, I bet those home canned tomatoes were delicious!
the texture was very nice and very quick to make but the directions are a bit complex but we would be interested to put it in one of our cook books
the texture is ok but the flavor do not jump out at me and just needs some more flavor but is very easy to cook.