Sausage & Fennel Pasta

A quick pasta dish with yielding sausage meat, fresh fennel and a creamy ricotta
sauce

Servings: 2

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Prep Time
5 minutes

Cook Time
18 minutes

Total Time
23 minutes

Main Course

Italian

Pasta recipe sausage simple easy Lunch ricotta cooking Family Fast Tasty Dinner Crowd Pleaser Fast Food spaghetti Supper fennel

Instructions

1 Get some salted water boiling for your pasta, cook this as per the packets
instructions.
2 In a pestle and mortar rough up the Fennel seeds until you get a good amount of
fibrous dust.

Squeeze out the Sausage meat from the skins if using sausages.

Add the Fennel dust to the Sausage meat and a generous pinch of Salt and mix
until thoroughly combined.
3 Finely slice the Fennel Bulb.We are using the white part that looks like an
onion and can be cut in much the same way.

Finely chop the Garlic clove.
4 Heat some oil in a frying pan and add the Sausage. Prodding to break it up into
chunks.

Keep disturbing the Sausage Meat and fry until golden and crisp and cooked
through 5 – 7 minutes.

Tip the cooked Sausage onto a plate and add the sliced Fennel to the pan. You
may need to add a splash of oil depending how much fat the sausages have left
behind.
5 Once the fennel has started to turn golden after about 4 minutes add the Garlic
and Chilli Flakes and cook for 2 minute.

Add the sausage back to the pan and turn the heat off.
6 Scoop out 60ml of the pasta water (a ¼ cup measure) and mix with the Ricotta to
loosen.
7 Drain the pasta and add to the Ricotta.
8 Next mix the Sausage and Fennel with the Pasta and Ricotta.

Serve in pasta bowls garnished with the leafy green fronds of the Fennel.