Pasta is easy and fast to prepare and everyone loves it. As you may have guessed that my love for pasta is as great as noodles! There are many sauce variations. My all time favourites are tomato sauce and white sauce. Ingredients wise, I like seafood, vegetables, mushrooms, bacon and of course sausages!
Pasta comes in different colours and shapes. If you ask me how many? I really don’t know the answer. Here is the good source of infomation – List of Pasta.
I have made tagliatelle with spicy sausage, courgette, and petit pois for the Presto Pasta Nights, which is hosted by Soy and Pepper this week. It is my first time to join this event and I am quite excited about it.
Is it spicy you may ask because of spicy sausage? No, not at all. In fact, it makes a real difference in eating sausages. Tagliatelle with spicy sausage, courgette, and petit pois is very easy to make. Apart from cooking the pasta, the other task is to cook up the ingredients. It’s then good to eat.
This dish is suitable to be eaten as dinner also for lunchbox next day! This is what I usually do for cooked dishes – I cook extra portions so that I can bring to work for lunch. So, there’s no chance of saying ‘not sure what to have for lunch!’
Recipe: Tagliatelle with Spicy Sausage, Courgette, Petit Pois
Serves 4
Ingredients:
Olive oil, 2 tbsp
Garlic cloves, 2
Courgette/Zucchini (sliced), 1
Petit Pois, 100g
Tagliatelle, 250g-300g
Red chili (finely chopped), 1
Spicy sausages (remove the sausage casing and made into small meatballs size), 4-5
Crème fraîche, 2 tbsp
Method:
1. Cook tagliatelle according to the packet instruction.
2. Heat the pan and drizzle about 2 tbsp of olive oil.
3. Put in chopped garlic and cooked until fragrant.
4. Put in the sausage meat and cook for about 10 minutes until the meat is cooked.
5. Then, put in sliced courgette/zucchini. Stir well and cook for another 5 minutes until the courgette/zucchini is soft.
6. After that, stir in finely chopped chili.
7. Once all the ingredients are cooked, remove from heat and add in the cook tagliatelle. Give a good mix.
8. After that, add in dollops of crème fraîche. Mix well then serve warm.
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November 20th, 2008 at 7:26 am
I love simple and delicious dishes like that
And hey, how coincidental that we both used sausages to make meatballs for our PPN entries!
November 20th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Yum! I love pasta. In fact, all Italian food!
Oh which part of Kedah are you from? I’m from AS.
November 20th, 2008 at 9:47 am
This looks amazing my cooking hut!!! why don’t you make some to sell?
November 20th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Looks like a great credit crunch lunch!….
November 20th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I luv ur tip on how to make the meatballs! Saw it on Jamie Oliver’s cooking demo in the David Letterman’s show. Your photo is so beautiful that I can smell your pasta now! Hmmmm! Btw I from the north too.
November 20th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
This looks great. It’s similar to some of the dishes we used to eat growing up, if there wasn’t some frozen red sauce in the house (we never ate the white-sauce stuff. It comes from northern Italy and we just never saw much of it.)
November 20th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Nil,
Yeah!! What a coincident! When I read your post after dinner, I checked your blog and I thought hey, I had sausages meatballs!!
kyh,
I love italian food too!! Ah.. I am not far from you!!
Kristin,
Thank you! Do you want to buy some? *LOL*
James,
Yes – healthy, yummy, and not expensive! Works well for me
lk,
Thank you for your compliment!! Yup! I love the idea of use sausages and make into meatballs. I got this inspiration from an Italian restaurant. You from the north too!! Small world hey?
Fearless kitchen,
Really? I love this dish so much.. simple and nice. Which part of Italy are you from?
November 21st, 2008 at 6:40 am
I see you also create new Home.look good man!! your simple pasta sound CLASSIC:p
November 21st, 2008 at 5:37 pm
My mom’s family comes from Naples.
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:23 am
This pasta looks like the Chinese flat noodle -Mee Pok. :p
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Welcome to Presto Pasta Nights. I do hope you plan on sharing more of such tasty treats in the weeks to come.
This is my favorite type of pasta and your photo is wonderful.
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:22 pm
This is a lovely dish. Sometimes simple is best.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Beachlover,
Thank you!!
Fearless Kitchen,
Ah, I see!
Tigerfish,
Yeah.. they look quite the same!! But, different texture I believe?
Ruth,
Thank you! Yeah, I think I will share more pasta recipes for Presto Pasta Nights!!
Mary,
Thank you for dropping by.. I definitely agree that sometimes simple is best!!
December 17th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
This sounds delicious! I love making pasta because it’s simple, healthy, and there are so many different ways to prepare it.
December 18th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Maris,
Thank you for your comment! I truly agree with you!