Creamy Sausage Rigatoni (One-Pan, 30-Minute Meal)
One-Pot Creamy Sausage Rigatoni is an easy-to-make weeknight dinner made in just 30 minutes! This rigatoni recipe features basic ingredients found in most grocery stores. Everything is cooked in one pan on the stove-top: Italian sausage, creamy tomato sauce, and pasta. It's restaurant-quality comfort food!
Servings 4 people
Calories 854kcal
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 15 oz Italian sausage crumbled
- 8 oz rigatoni uncooked
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning or Herbs from Provence
- 15 oz tomato sauce such as tomato pasta sauce or marinara
- 5 oz fresh spinach
- salt and coarsely ground black pepper to taste
- red pepper flakes to taste
Instructions
- Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil on medium heat in a large, high-sided, heavy-bottomed skillet on the stovetop.
- Add crumbled sausage and cook on medium heat for about 5 minutes, crumbling it, until it is cooked through. Drain any grease or liquid.
- To the same skillet with sausage, add uncooked rigatoni, chicken broth, heavy cream, minced garlic, Italian seasoning, and tomato sauce.
- Bring to a boil on medium heat and stir everything well. Cover with a lid, and allow the pasta to cook for about 10 to 15 minutes on medium heat, while the sauce boils.
- Cook until pasta reaches an "al dente" texture. Stir frequently to prevent pasta and sausage from sticking to the bottom of the pan.
- Add fresh spinach, and cook on medium heat, stirring frequently for a couple of minutes, until the spinach wilts to your liking.
- Alternatively, just remove the skillet from heat, top sausage rigatoni with spinach, cover the pan with the lid. Let the spinach wilt, off heat, in the residual heat in a covered skillet for about 4 minutes. Then, stir.
- Cook longer if you would like a thicker sauce.
- Mix everything well. Remove from heat. Season with salt, freshly ground coarse black pepper, and 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.
- Note: I provide very helpful step-by-step photos for this recipe above the recipe card. Scroll up if you would like to see the photos that visually explain this recipe.
Nutrition
Calories: 854kcal | Carbohydrates: 53g | Protein: 27g | Fat: 60g | Saturated Fat: 26g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 23g | Cholesterol: 149mg | Sodium: 1547mg | Potassium: 994mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 4668IU | Vitamin C: 21mg | Calcium: 136mg | Iron: 4mg