Italian Sausage Pasta - 30-Minute Meal

Italian sausage pasta with spinach, mushrooms, and tomato sauce in a cast iron pan

Italian Sausage Pasta - 30-Minute Meal

Italian Sausage Pasta is an easy 30-minute meal made with simple ingredients! It's a perfect weeknight dinner to prepare for your family, kids, and friends. Everybody will love this restaurant-quality pasta dish!

Course Main Course

Cuisine Italian

Keyword Italian sausage pasta, sausage pasta

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Total Time 30

Servings people

Calories 764kcal

Author Julia

Ingredients

12 oz pasta farfalle (bow tie) or penne
1 tablespoon olive oil
8 oz mushrooms crimini, sliced
15 oz Italian sausage mild, crumbled
4 cloves garlic minced
½ teaspoon Italian seasoning or Herbs from Provence
red pepper flakes to taste
13 oz tomato sauce such as tomato pasta sauce or marinara
6 oz spinach fresh
salt and coarsely ground black pepper to taste

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Instructions

Bring a pot of water to boil. Cook the pasta according to the package directions. While the pasta cooks, proceed with the recipe below.
Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil on medium heat in a large, high-sided skillet.
Add sliced mushrooms and cook for 3 or 5 minutes until they are cooked through but not overcooked. Remove mushrooms from the skillet.
To the same, now empty, skillet, add crumbled sausage and cook on medium heat for about 5 minutes or until the sausage is cooked. Drain excess fat.
To the same skillet with sausage, add minced garlic, Italian seasoning, red pepper flakes, tomato pasta sauce, and fresh spinach. Bring to a boil on medium heat and stir everything well. Cook on medium heat, stirring frequently, for 5 minutes until the spinach wilts to your liking.
Add cooked and drained pasta to the sauce. Reheat.
Mix everything well. Remove from heat.
Season with salt, freshly ground coarse black pepper, and red pepper flakes, if you like. Top with cooked sliced mushrooms.
Tip: use your best judgment about the salt. If the sausage is salty enough, you might not need to add any extra salt.

Notes

Tomato sauce. It can be a store-bought tomato pasta sauce or marinara sauce. Any flavor will work: traditional, tomato basil, arrabbiata, or garlic tomato sauce.
Sausage. I used mild Italian sausage. Italian sausage links can be used, too, with casings removed and sausage links sliced. You can also use sweet or spicy Italian sausage.
Italian seasoning of Herbs from Provence. The mix that I used contained dried rosemary, thyme, parsley, tarragon, marjoram, basil, and sage.

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