I love a good comfort food recipe, and creamy sausage and tomato pasta is just that. It is a great budget-friendly dinner recipe that you can make to feed the whole family without breaking the bank and be ready in no time!
If you are looking for a tasty and easy family dinner, make sure you add this recipe to your list. Any time I make this for my family I am lucky to have leftovers for the next day.
Knowing that I’ll be able to make a meal and I do not have to bribe anyone to eat just two more bites, makes this meal pop up on the meal rotation often. And of course, the fact that this recipe can be tossed together super quickly is also a plus!
This creamy pasta goes wonderfully with some of our green beans with candied pecans, strawberry spinach salad with homemade poppyseed dressing. And of course you cannot forget dessert, so make sure to make some blueberry fluff salad too, it has blueberry so it’s healthy right? 😉
Ingredients You’ll Need For Our Creamy Sausage and Tomato Pasta:
- Penne pasta
- Turkey Italian sausage
- Medium sized onion
- Cloves of garlic
- Italian-style diced tomatoes
- Tomato sauce
- Half and half
- Dried basil
- Parmesan cheese
- Fresh basil (optional as a garnish)
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How To Make Our Creamy Sausage and Tomato Pasta:
- Cook the pasta in salted water Al Dente, according to package directions.
- While pasta is cooking, brown the sausage and drain grease.
- Add the onions and garlic to the sausage and saute for a couple of minutes.
- Pour in the entire can of diced tomatoes and the tomato sauce and heat through.
- Pour in the half-and-half and heat through. The longer you cook the sauce the thicker it will get so simmer it until it is the consistency you want.
- Add the basil and let it simmer for a few minutes.
- Finally, mix the sausage sauce with the pasta.
- Top each serving with a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese and fresh basil (if desired).
How to Mince Garlic
I won’t lie, sometimes when a recipe calls for minced garlic I just pull out my jar from the fridge and take out a good scoop. But, there are some days when I like to use fresh garlic cloves, but I find peeling and cutting garlic cloves to be the hardest part.
If you do too, check out the Food Networks step-by-step instructions on how to mince garlic! I always find visuals helpful, and the Food Network provides that for you.
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30 Minute Creamy Sausage and Tomato Pasta Recipe
Ingredients
- 12 ounces penne pasta
- 1 pound Turkey Italian Sausage
- 1 medium onion, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 16 ounces Italian-style diced tomatoes
- 8 ounces tomato sauce
- 1 cup half-and-half
- ½ teaspoon dried basil
- ¼ cup Parmesan cheese, for topping
- fresh chopped basil, optional garnish
Instructions
- Cook the pasta in salted water Al Dente, according to package directions.
- While pasta is cooking, brown the sausage and drain grease.
- Add the onions and garlic to the sausage and saute for a couple of minutes.
- Pour in the entire can of diced tomatoes and the tomato sauce and heat through.
- Pour in the half-and-half and heat through. The longer you cook the sauce the thicker it will get so simmer it until it is the consistency you want.
- Add the basil and let it simmer for a few minutes.
- Finally, mix the sausage sauce with the pasta.
- Top each serving with a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese and fresh basil (if desired).
Notes
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Thank You! I was exhausted after a long day of school today with the kids and had not a clue what I was going to make for dinner. Like magic while I was flipping through my recipe box this recipe popped up on my email. I made this tonight for dinner and the entire family loved it. Thanks!
I just bought Italian sausage for the first time because of a sale but had no clue what to do with it. Now I know. 🙂 I’m excited to try this. Thanks!!
The photo and then reading the recipe…I am drooling! I believe we will have this for supper tonight! YUM!
Simmering on the stove right now! I can not wait to wait to eat it. Thanks for a quick after work meal.
I made this last night but I used sweet apple chicken sausage and it was delicious!! And the kids LOVED it which is a plus. Will definately be making this again!!!
This is a very simple, and quick recipe. It’s perfect for busy nights when you need dinner on the table quick. It’s delicious of course, and the kids love it too. I served it with some garlic bread. Yum! One thing I changed was that I used 1 lb of ground Italian sausage. After reading the recipe, I found absolutely no reason to use the links, but to each their own. I like the ground stuff for things like this.
I’m always excited to find a 30min meal. Few changes I used whole milk and add a cup of cheddar before adding pasta… YUM!