Country-Style Rigatoni

Submitted by GothicGranola

"from Food and Wine's 'One-Dish Meals'"

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 14.79 ml cooking oil
• 453.59 g mild sausage or 453.59 g hot Italian sausage
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 473.18 ml canned low sodium chicken broth
• 1 head escarole, torn into 2-inch pieces
• 236.59 ml drained and raised canned cannellini beans (15 oz. can)
• 78.78 ml grated parmesan cheese, plus more for serving
• 2.46 ml salt
• 1.23 ml fresh ground black pepper
• 340.19 g rigatoni pasta

directions

1. In a large deep frying pan, heat the oil over medium heat. Add the sausage and cooki, turning, until brown and cooked through, about 10 minutes. Remove. When sausage is cooled, cut into slices.
2. Simmer garlic and broth in pan. Add escarole, cover, and simmer for 5 minutes. Gently stir in the sausage, beans, Paremsan, salt and pepper and let simmer 1 minute longer.
3. Meanwhile, cook the pasta in a large pot of salted, boiling water until al dente, about 14 minutes. Drain and toss with the sauce. Serve with additional Parmesan.

Reviews

[CabinKat]

I felt this recipe was a bit too plain. It seemed to be needing some spice or something to kick it up. I didn't use hot sausage, used mild because I can't do the heat. We also used wheat pasta (healthier) but I don't feel that took anything away from the flavor. Maybe some sun-dried tomatoes would have kicked it up?

 

[Marie]

Absolutely awesome recipe! Made it for dinner last night and really enjoyed it. Used 4 cloves of garlic and could have used 2 more. Also, removed Italian sausage from casings and crumbled into frypan to cook. After entire dish was assembled, I drizzled a little extra olive oil over. Definitely a fabulous recipe that I will make many more times. Thanks so much for posting.