Creamy Italian Sausage Pasta

Serve this Italian sausage pasta with a green salad tossed in our lemon salad dressing and a side of no yeast bread.

How to cook Italian sausage for pasta

We like to remove the casing (the wrapper) from the sausage then use a wooden spoon to break it apart as it cooks. When cooked this way you can easily control how big or small you want the pieces to be. Break them up a little and you’ll have big chunks; break them up a lot and you’ll have a texture similar to ground beef. And even though it’s a real treat to eat, it’s a super fast and easy pasta recipe. In just 25 minutes, you can sit at the table (or stand at the stovetop) and dig into this creamy Italian sausage pasta for dinner. But it is also delicious sliced into chunks either before or after you cook it. Slicing the sausage before cooking it will give you bigger pieces. If you cook the whole sausage first then you’ll be able to slice it into thin pieces.

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Or serve Italian sausage pasta as a side to one of these mains

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Freeze leftovers

If you’d like to freeze leftover Italian sausage pasta, make sure that it is completely cool and then transfer it to a freezer-proof container. We love to use these reusable Stasher freezer bags. Frozen pasta will keep well for up to 3 months in the freezer so you’ll have an easy comfort food dinner on hand any time you want it!