Delicious, easy-to-make dinner: Italian Sausage Pasta with Vegetables. Italian sausage is seared with bell peppers, mushrooms, onions, fresh tomatoes in cajun spices, with a splash of red wine! Topped with freshly grated Parmesan cheese!
This has been one of my most favorite pastas for years. I love roasting vegetables on stove top and then mixing them with some meat, pasta and spices! So easy and delicious! Variations of this kind of Italian style dinner are endless, and, in this dish, I am using Italian sausage for meat and Cajun seasoning for spice. You couldn’t come up with the easier and simpler combination of ingredients than that!
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Remove casings from the sausage and slice the sausage into small pieces. In a large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil, add sausage, and cook, occasionally stirring, until it’s cooked through, drain the fat. Add another tablespoon of olive oil into the skillet with sausage, add chopped onion and garlic, half of the Cajun seasoning – cook, constantly stirring, on high heat until onion softens:
Add chopped bell peppers:
Then, immediately add tomatoes:
You can even add more tomatoes:
Immediately, add mushrooms:
Add the remaining half of Cajun seasoning to the skillet with sausage and vegetables. Cook for about 2 minutes, constantly stirring, on medium-high heat to sear the vegetables nicely on stove-top:
Add wine to the skillet, bring to boil, reduce to simmer and simmer, covered, occasionally stirring, for about 5-7 minutes. The liquid should reduce somewhat but not completely. Remove from heat. Salt to taste. Add more Cajun seasoning, if necessary:
Cook pasta according to package instructions. Drain and immediately add to the skillet with the sauce. Mix everything well, cover, and heat the pasta on low heat for 1-2 minutes. To serve, top with grated Parmesan cheese and cracked black pepper:
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 Italian sausages (1 pound), casings removed, sliced
- 1 small onion, very finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, finely minced
- 1 tablespoon Cajun seasoning
- 1 bell pepper, very finely chopped
- 4 medium tomatoes, chopped, or 15 cherry tomatoes, each sliced in half
- 8 ounces mushrooms, finely sliced
- 3/4 cup red wine
- 10 oz penne pasta (for gluten-free, use gluten-free brown rice penne, such as Tinkyada brand)
- 1/2 cup fresh Parmesan cheese, grated
Instructions
- Remove casings from the sausage and slice the sausage into small pieces.
- In a large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil and add sausage. Cook, occasionally stirring, until it's cooked through, drain the fat. Add another tablespoon of olive oil into the skillet with sausage, add chopped onion and garlic, half of the Cajun seasoning - cook, constantly stirring, on high heat until onion softens.
- Add chopped bell peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, and the remaining half of Cajun seasoning to the skillet with sausage. Cook for about 2 minutes, constantly stirring, on medium-high heat to sear the vegetables nicely on stove-top.
- Add wine to the skillet, bring to boil, reduce to simmer and simmer, covered, occasionally stirring, for about 5-7 minutes. The liquid should reduce somewhat but not completely. Remove from heat. Salt to taste. Add more Cajun seasoning, if necessary.
- Cook pasta al dente according to package instructions. Drain and immediately add to the skillet with the sauce. Mix everything well, cover, and heat the pasta on low heat for 1-2 minutes.
- To serve, sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese and black pepper.
I made this dish with mild Italian turkey sausage since I could not find really delicious Italian pork sausage. I’m still searching. I used canned mushroom pieces, and 1/4 tsp Creole seasoning, plus Herbs de Provence to equal 1 tablespoon of seasoning. I had a red pepper so I used it, 15 cherry tomatoes halved and penne. In spite of my substitutions of ingredients this dish was delicious! Hubby and I are planning to go to Dallas to shop for Italian sausage to use in this recipe for our wine pairing dinner with friends this weekend. Guess I’ll make my own Cajun seasoning, as well.
Thank you, Carol, for sharing your changes to this recipe. You made some great changes!
Delicious, I will make it again! Thank you
So glad you liked it!
What is the calorie intake?
I made this dish without the mushrooms, added chicken breast and used cooking red wine instead and it was great!
The dish was really good, fairly simple-perfect for someone’s first time cooking-it was my first time too. I decided I wanted to make dinner for my family, so I searched up Italian recipes with pasta, veggies and meat, and this popped up. I did make a few changes though. I changed the Cajun spices to rosemary and time, and red whine to white whine,. It turned out amazing, this is a great dish
I love everything about this Julia. Wish I was having it for dinner tonight! Pinning it.
Looks like something we would love Julia..Thank you!
A really hearty and moreish meal!
Looks good minus the shrooms!
Yes, please! Sausage is my favorite meat to pair with vegetables and pasta in a sublime sauce. And, I am all for that splash of red wine and a good dose of Parm! Gorgeous and inviting photography, as always, my friend. Have a fabulous Friday and weekend! 🙂 Pinning (of course)!