Recipe: Penne with Sausage Sauce (6)

Ingredients...

2 tbsps olive oil
2 small red onions, peeled and chopped
6 Italian spicy pork sauages
1 1/2 tbsps chopped fresh rosemary
2 bay leaves
2 small dried chillies, crumbled
1 3/4 lb tin plum tomatoes, drained and chopped
salt and black pepper
9 oz penne rigate
5 fl oz double cream
4 1/2 oz freshly grated parmesan

Instructions...

1) Remove meat from sausage skins and crumble.

2) Heat the oil in a large saucepan and fry the onion until light brown.

3) Add the crumbled sausages, rosemary, bay leaves and chilli. Fry together over a high heat, stirring to mash the sausages.remove all but 1 tbsp of the fat and continue to cook for 20 minutes.The sausagemeat should disintergrate.

4) Add the tomatoes, sir and return to the boil. Remove from the heat.

5) Cook the penne in plenty of boiling salted water and drain thoroughly.

6) Stir the cream into the sauce together with the drained pasta and half the parmesan. Seve with the remaining parmesan.
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