It was Monday. I had planned the week’s menu. I made a grocery list and pulled some coupons together. I was ready to start my week and head to the store. My daughter woke up that morning with a fever and grocery shopping was going to have to wait.
I had to regroup. There was plenty of food in the refrigerator, freezer and pantry, but my grocery list was stuff that I needed to pull my planned meals together. So I turned to the web and I went to MyRecipes.com and searched a few ingredients that I had on hand to see what I could find.
This recipe is a good find. I had all of the ingredients and it is an easy, quick, delicious dish.
Turkey Sausage, Arugula, and Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta
adapted from Food & Wine
- 1 lb turkey sausage, casings removed
- 12 reconstituted sun-dried tomato halves – it is cheaper to buy the non-oil packed sun-dried tomatoes, simply re-hydrate by soaking the tomatoes in warm water for about a minute
- 4 garlic cloves
- 2 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 2/3 C olive oil
- 1 large bunch of arugula – cut into thin strips. My arugula was from my CSA. It is one of the ingredients that I searched. I wasn’t in the mood for a salad. You could easily substitute spinach.
- 1 lb pasta – I had rigatoni on hand
Boil water in a large pot and cook pasta. Drain.
While the pasta is cooking, combine the sun-dried tomatoes, garlic, vinegar, salt, pepper in a food processor. Blend until well combined. Stream the olive oil into the processor while the machine is running.
At this point your kitchen will smell absolutely divine.
Heat about 1 tbsp of olive oil in a pan and add the turkey sausage. Break into tiny pieces and brown until it is cooked through.
When sausage is done cooking, add chopped arugula and mix together.
In a very large bowl, toss the turkey and arugula mixture, cooked pasta and the sun-dried tomato vinaigrette. Serve warm.
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looks super tasty.
Looks and sounds AWESOME!!!
Geri
What a great economical way to make a delicious meal!
Thanks for the recipe and linking to TMTT.
That looks and sounds fabulous!! Thanks for sharing!
I could go for a dish of this right now!
Joyce
This looks delicious. We’ll be enjoying this before long.
I have yet to meet a pasta dish I don’t like, but top it with a sun-dried tomato sauce and I’m in heaven!!
🙂
ButterYum
Looks wonderful, I love everything in it!!
Well I made this today and it was pretty tasty! So beautiful and healthy. I used home made soaked soba noodles for the pasta, and also substituted seeded fresh tomato’s instead of the dried. Yum!
Kylie in NZ
KellyNZ – I’ve made home made soba noodles. I will have to look into it. The fresh tomatoes sounds great. I’ll have to remember that next year during tomato season. Thanks for the comment.
I didnt see the turkey sausage on the list? Maybe Im blind, haha. Look awesome though, cant wait to try it! Thanks for the great tips!
Anon – Thanks for the heads up and I have edited the post.