Kittencal's Easy Italian Sausage Pasta Sauce
Recipe: #6801
October 15, 2012
Categories: Sauce, Tomato/Red Sauces, Pork Sausage, Italian, Sunday Dinner, No Eggs, Canned Tomatoes, more
"This is easy and great tasting but does require about an hour or more of simmering time on top of the stove. Use your favorite Italian sausage links for this and for the best flavor use good-quality Italian canned tomatoes!"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (357 g)
- Calories 175.6
- Total Fat - 4.7 g
- Saturated Fat - 0.8 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 958.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 30 g
- Dietary Fiber - 4.9 g
- Sugars - 9.8 g
- Protein - 5.6 g
- Calcium - 69.3 mg
- Iron - 1.8 mg
- Vitamin C - 42.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
In a heavy saucepan or a large skillet with high sides heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Add in sausage links and brown well on a sides. Remove to a plate, cool then slice sausages into thirds.
Step 2
To the same skillet add in onion, saute 2-3 minutes or until softened. Add in garlic, Italian seasoning, bay leaf and chili flakes, saute 1 minute. Add in tomato paste. Cook stirring over medium heat for 2 minutes.
Step 3
Add in the plum tomatoes and seasoned salt. Using a fork break up the tomatoes in the saucepan. Bring to a simmer stirring very well until everything is combined and at a medium simmer. Add the sausages back to the saucepan. Simmer partially covered over medium-low heat for 1 to 1 1/4 hours, stirring frequently. Taste about halfway through, then season with pepper and add more salt if needed. Remove and discard the bay leaf.
Step 4
Serve on/with cooked pasta of choice.
Tips
No special items needed.