Cavatelli with spicy tomato-sausage sauce

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Preparation Time:

10 Min

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Difficulty:

Easy

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Main Ingredients:

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Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

2 c Quick Tomato Sauce 2 tb Fresh basil, chopped (1 1/2
12 oz Hot Italian sausage -tsp dried)
1 tb Olive oil 3/4 lb Cavatelli or penne
1/2 c Reserved juice from canned 3/4 c Ricotta
-tomatoes (or water)

PREPARATION: For The Sauce, make the Quick Tomato Sauce. Remove
casing from sausage. Heat olive oil in large frying pan over medium
heat; saute sausage, breaking into small pieces, until color turns
pale and sausage is just cooked through, about 10 minutes. Add the
Quick Tomato Sauce, basil, and tomato juice; simmer, uncovered, over
low heat for 5 minutes. Sauce can be made 1 day ahead.

COOKING AND SERVING: Cook the pasta in 4 quarts boiling, salted water
until just tender, about 8 minutes. Drain well. Reheat the sauce.
Toss the pasta with sauce. Serve on warmed serving dishes. Garnish
each serving with 3 tablespoons ricotta.

Makes 4 servings.

[COOKS; May/Jun 1988] Posted by Fred Peters.