Stove Top Baked Pasta with Mozzarella, Tomato Sauce, and Sausage
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Stove Top Baked Pasta with Mozzarella, Tomato Sauce, and Sausage
Cook: Vincent Scordo - Scordo.com
Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
1 pound of any short pasta shape (we used a De Cecco shape called, "gnocchi"
2-3 cups of tomato sauce
2 cups of diced whole milk mozzarella
2-3 links of Italian sausage (casing removed and crumbled)
3-4 fresh basil leaves
1 cup of grated
Process
Cook the pasta al dente. In a small fry pan, remove the sausage from the casing and cook for 15-20 minutes or until sausage is broken down and crispy.
In the same pot that the pasta was cooked in, add the tomato sauce and then the pasta - keep a low to medium flame going. After 3-5 minutes, add the mozzarella and stir well. Add the grated cheese and stir well. Add the basil and sausage and stir.
Serve immediately.
Recipe by Scordo.com - Italian Food Recipes and Lifestyle at http://www.scordo.com/pasta/stove-top-baked-pasta-with-mozzarella-tomato-sauce.html