Easy pasta recipe for 4 people, takes only 25 mins; recipe has olive oil, pork sausage, fennel seed, garlic cloves, red chilli, lemon, cherry tomato, pasta, kale and parmesan.
Sausage, kale & chilli pasta
Course: Easy pasta
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
10 mins
Ingredients
- Olive Oil: 3 tbsp olive oil
- Pork Sausage: 250g pork sausages, skins removed, broken into pieces
- Fennel Seed: 2 tsp fennel seeds
- Garlic Cloves: 3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- Red Chilli: 1 large red chilli, sliced
- Lemon: 1 lemon, zested and juiced
- Cherry Tomato: 150g cherry tomatoes
- Pasta: 400g short pasta, such as orecchiette, farfalle or conchiglie
- Kale: 150g chopped curly kale
- Parmesan: 75g grated parmesan
Directions
- Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil. Meanwhile, heat 1 tsp oil in a large frying pan. Brown the sausage with the fennel seeds on a medium heat for 6-7 mins until golden, then set aside.
- Heat the remaining oil in the same pan, add the garlic and chilli, and cook on a medium heat for 2 mins or until golden. Add the lemon juice and tomatoes, cook for 2 mins, then remove from the heat.
- Boil the pasta following pack instructions until al dente. Add the kale for the final 2 mins of cooking. Drain, saving the cooking liquid, then put the pasta and kale back in the saucepan to keep warm. Add about 100ml cooking liquid to the tomatoes. Heat up, pour over the pasta and toss together with the sausage, lemon zest and half the Parmesan. Serve in bowls with the remaining Parmesan sprinkled over.
