so one night a week Jules and I throw axes in the backyard ax throwing league
so we need something that's easy to cook delicious easy to eat and will give us
the fuel we need to win welcome friends welcome to axe night suppers and tonight
I'm making a sausage and pasta one pan kind of dish and this is the type of
recipe that once you know the relationship between the pasta the
weight of the pasta and how much liquid it takes to cook it everything else on
this countertop can change this is a completely adaptable recipe okay the pan
is hot and today I'm using a hot or spicy Italian sausage but you could use
any protein any sausage you could take this firmly completely into Hamburger
Helper territory and just use ground beef or ground chicken or ground turkey
doesn't really matter so I've cut up the sausage and I'm gonna put that in I'm
just gonna start frying that off you just want to kind of brown it around the
edges now I've left the casings on tonight because I am pressed for time
but you can definitely take the casings off and turn these into little mini
meatballs if you wanted okay so the sausage is cooked pretty well now I'm
gonna put in a diced onion a diced bell pepper and you can put hot pepper in if
you wanted to and I'm gonna crush in some garlic
okay now I just want to continue to saute or fry this until the onions have
softened okay everything's softened down nicely so at this point put in a can of
tomatoes I'm using Rotel but you could use any chopped up Tomatoes anything
with fire-roasted Tomatoes would be fantastic at this point I also put in
the pasta and some chicken stock but of course depending on your protein you
could use any stock you wanted okay so I stir this together and make sure that I
get the pasta in the liquid I'm also going to add at this point some frozen
peas because I like frozen peas and some frozen broccoli florets you could use
fresh if you wanted having them frozen is fantastic way just to always have
them available to you and sprinkle of salt and pepper now the chicken stock is
the right amount of liquid to cook this pasta and just soften it up and cook it
properly the liquid from the tomatoes and this milk that I'm about to add is
what's going to give us the sauce or the nice goopy kind of unctuous sauce that
goes around it so I'm going to put in about 1/2 a cup of milk I'm just gonna
eyeball it because you can play with that later you can adjust it after the
pasta is cooked so we give this a stir together bring it up to a boil turn it
down to a simmer and then I'm going to put the lid on and cook it for about 15
minutes until the pasta is cooked through
giggles hey I am ready are you ready I am ready so one pan pasta sausage type
deal oh that sounds good a little bit of a creamy sauce to go
with it there we go looks like a bit of broccoli - broccoli there's peas you
know beauty of this recipe is you could put pretty much anything in the that you
wanted steamy goodness mm-hmm a little bit of
cream I used milk mm-hmm I think I would use cream if I could choose put a cup of
white wine in it you could put white wine in it yes definitely could put
white wine in it you could swap out some of the chicken broth for white wine
mm-hmm this works so super fast like half an hour oh that's good so perhaps
we'll need to eat it more than once then cuz busy yeah so on a busy night this
works really well and then it keeps for lunches for a couple days too if you
want to have her for lunches and like I said as long as you've got the the
combination of the amount of liquid for the pasta by weight you could sub in any
protein any vegetables any extra liquid that you want to make the sauce make
your own exactly do this however you want don't there's no I mean like I said
earlier I think you could probably just make this as Hamburger Helper it's the
exact same concept exact same concept so thanks for stopping by
see you again soon
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