Simple Italian Sausage Pasta Sauce

VickyJ's Note:

This is great on pasta or rice. It's very easy and doesn't use a lot of ingredients. You could even add a can of Cannellini or Pinto beans (drained and rinsed) when you add the tomatoes to make the foundation for a basic sausage stew.

• Total Time: 40 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 2

• ½ lb Italian sausage (not in the casing)
• 1 small red bell pepper , diced
• ½ small red onion , diced
• 1 (14 ½ ounce) can stewed tomatoes (diced with juice)
• 1 -2 tablespoon flour (if desired, used it for thickening)
• 2 -3 green onions , diced

Directions:

1. In a medum-sized sauce pan, brown sausage, bell pepper and onion. Make sure vegies are tender.
2. Drain off grease.
3. Add stewed tomatoes, green onion 1-2 Tbsp of flour (for thickening--I added this to the tomatoes in separate medium-sized bowl and mixed it vigorously with a whisk. Then I added it, along with the green onion to the pan. If you like a thin sauce, don't do this step).
4. Bring to a boil over HIGH heat, stirring constantly.
5. Reduce to low-med, simmer covered for 15 min and uncovered for 15 min, stirring occasionally.
6. Serve over pasta or rice with a nice salad on the side with garlic bread.

Reviews

[Mirj]

This was really good, really easy and really delicious! I can't easily get Italian sausage where I live, so I subbed some Moroccan merguez, which was probably best for me because I love my food so spicy your head spontaneously combusts. I served this over shell pasta with an Israeli salad on the side. Great sauce, thanks so much for posting this!