Two pastas, one quick and easy meal
What is better than pasta? Two pastas! This is an easy solution for those nights when I know everyone needs a good meal but I’m really short on time and inspiration. This is so quick that it’s prepared in the time it takes to boil the water and cook the pasta …about 20 minutes. One pasta is served up with Italian sausage and Parmesan and the other is roasted peppers, green onions, and goat cheese. Both are delicious.
Two Pastas - One Meal
2 packages of your favorite fresh pasta shape, mine is Campanelle
1/2 pound of fresh Italian sausage
8 - 12 miniature bell peppers or 2 normal sized
6 - 8 fresh scallions
6 oz. of fresh goat cheese (Chevre), cut into chunks
Parmesan for grating
Reserved pasta water
Salt and pepper
Put a pot of water on to boil for the pasta. Salt the water well.
Heat a skillet on medium and start browning the sausage. While you’re doing that roast the peppers over another burner. Once they are roasted wrap the bunch of them in a paper towel and set aside. Once the sausage is cooked and broken into small chunks set it aside, drain the fat if necessary.
Slice the scallions into 1/4″ slices on the diagonal. Rub the roasted skin off the peppers with the paper towels. Remove the stem and any seeds and slice into 1/4″ slices.
Cook the pasta according to package instructions. When it is done cooking reserve 1 cup of the pasta water before you drain the pasta.
Using two bowls put half of the pasta in each bowl.
Add about a 1/4 cup of the reserved pasta water to each bowl of pasta. Add the sausage to one bowl and stir it up and grate some Parmesan into it.
Add the peppers, onions, and goat cheese to the other bowl and stir it well. If the consistency of either bowl is too tight add some pasta water to loosen it up.
Serve family-style and let everyone help themselves.
4 Responses to “Two pastas, one quick and easy meal”
1 Katiez 30 May 2007 @ 1:47 pm
Yah, I could do this. Two pastas for dinner, I’d be happy. Don’t know about mon mari though… he’s much more traditional. He won’t even eat cold pizza for breakfast!
2 Jef 30 May 2007 @ 11:15 pm
TWO PASTAS? I’m sure Mr Aktins is rolling in his grave! I love it. I’d be up for either or both of these dishes.
3 vanessa 31 May 2007 @ 5:37 am
Katiez, don’t think of it as two pastas…think of it as one pasta, two riffs.
Jef, Serves the old guy right…a limit on carbs, I think not!
4 Ros 4 June 2007 @ 9:41 am
You can roast peppers on the hob without them catching fire?
Mmmmm… sausage and pasta. So indulgent but so good!
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