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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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This recipe is delicious, I used ground turkey, i will definitely make this again!
I make this recipe for dinner, very simple and delicious, I used ground turkey and it worked well. My husband loved it!
This is delicious. I will definitely be making it again. I used sweet Italian sausage. Yum
Truly delicious recipe. Since I’ve made it my family has asked for it multiple times. Easy to make and mouthwatering good. Thanks.
I discovered this recipe this summer while isolating during the pandemic. We love it and I make sure I have all the ingredients available or they go on my list for curbside and grocery shopping. Thanks for posting it.
Delicious, quick and easy. Substituted Parmesan for the mozzarella. Only change I would make is to undercook the tortellini because it got too soggy while the spinach was wilting.
Made this tonight...followed recipe to the tee..(not a fan of people who comment when they’ve changed ingredients) it was sooo good already forwarded to a bunch of family/friends. Will definitely put it on my go to list...thank you for posting it.
Delicious and so easy!!! Loved it!!!
This was great. Used chicken sausage, but followed everything as posted. Gave some to a neighbor and she raved abou it. Will make again. Topped with some grated Parmesan.
This is a wonderful recipe. I don't eat meat, so I substituted shrimp and used canned tomatoes with chilis to add a little kick!! HUGE success!
Just made this. Did not have good half half.... so I used 2% with some cream cheese and used more mozzarella. It was DELICIOUS! My husband loved it! That with a salad !
OMG! Just made this for dinner and it was sooooo delish. Will be saving this one! It's a must try!
I don’t have half and half right now, how could I substitute?
I made this but I didn’t have heavy cream so I used Buttermilk with some butter & it worked & I did some chicken bullion & 2/3 cup water mixed to make some broth. It turned out AMAZING!!!!!! Even the kids loved it! Making again tonite!!
Hi, making this right now. I only have diced tomatoes with green pepper/onion. Think those will be ok? My only other option is crushed tomatoes or just plain sauce. Ugh.
I think it would taste just fine with tomatoes with mixed green peppers and onion!
I tried your recipe tonight. I had one I clipped out a year or so ago and couldn’t find it. I googled the basic ingredients and came across your recipe. It was great, and I was happy to concentrate on cooking in the midst of this pandemic, and sheltering in place. I hope you are well! Thanks again.
I tried your recipe tonight. I had one I clipped out a year or so ago and couldn’t find it. I googled the basic ingredients and came across your recipe. It was great, and I was happy to concentrate on cooking in the midst of this pandemic, and sheltering in place. I hope you are well! Thanks again.