Creamy Sausage and Kale Pasta is a quick and easy weeknight dinner made in just 30 minutes! It's restaurant-quality comfort food made with basic ingredients found in most grocery stores. Impress your family and friends with this well-balanced meal.
Course Main Course
Cuisine American, Italian
Keyword sausage kale pasta
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 20 minutesminutes
Total Time 30 minutesminutes
Servings 4
Author Julia
Ingredients
10ozbow-tie pasta
15ozspicy Italian sausagecrumbled
4ozsun-dried tomatoespacked in olive oil (drained of oil, chopped)
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add pasta and cook al dente according to pasta instructions. Drain. While the pasta is cooking, proceed with the recipe.
Add crumbled sausage to a large, high-sided skillet and cook on medium heat for about 5 minutes, crumbling it.
Add chopped sun-dried tomatoes, minced garlic, Italian seasoning, and chopped kale to the same skillet with sausage. Stir everything together and cook for about 5 minutes or longer until the sausage is completely cooked and the kale has reduced in volume and softened.
Add heavy cream and drained cooked pasta. Bring to a simmer (on low or low-medium heat). Add shredded Parmesan cheese and stir everything together until the cheese melts.
When serving, sprinkle with red pepper flakes if you like.
Tip: use your best judgment about the salt. If the sausage is salty enough, you might not need to add any extra salt.
Notes
To make it DAIRY-FREE, use unsweetened coconut milk instead of heavy cream and vegan Mozzarella shreds instead of Parmesan.
To make it GLUTEN-FREE, use GF pasta. This recipe is great for fiber-rich, gluten-free pasta, such as chickpea or lentil pasta.
To make it MEATLESS, use plant-based Italian sausages, such as Beyond Meat or Impossible sausage brands.