Creamy Sausage Pasta {Easy One Pot Recipe} (2024)

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This Creamy Sausage Pasta is a quick and easy one pot recipe. It makes a brilliant midweek dinner, where the pasta is cooked in a super tasty sauce, all in a single pan.

This is simply an all-round hit with the whole family!

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, one pan meals ARE LIFE.

The water that the pasta cooks in transforms into a delicious, sticky, silky sauce right there as it cooks the pasta. What could be easier?

Why you’ll love this Sausage Pasta recipe

⭐️ Dinner in under 30 minutes

⭐️ All made in a single pan

⭐️ Super fresh, tasty and creamy

Variations on this recipe

⭐️ Sausage Pasta Bake – Pop some breadcrumbs on top and melt under a hot grill before serving. (If you plan to do this, you will need to add all of the stock, and possibly a little more, as all of it will be absorbed by the extra heat)

⭐️ Cheesy Sausage Pasta Bake – Add plenty of grated cheese on top and melt under a hot grill before serving. (If you plan to do this, you will need to add all of the stock, and possibly a little more, as all of it will be absorbed by the extra heat)

⭐️ Spicy Sausage Pasta – Increase the chilli flakes in the recipe to your taste

⭐️ Healthy Sausage Pasta – Remove the cream cheese from the recipe and use lower fat sausages, or even just pork mince

Sausage Pasta Ingredients

• Onion and garlic – If you want a shortcut, frozen, pre prepared is perfect (it’s what I use mostly as one of my favourite shortcuts). Fresh is fine too
• Olive oil – Regular type, not extra virgin!
• Sausages – Try to use a good quality, high meat content sausages
• Red peppers (or bell peppers/capsicum if you’re in the USA) – You can use other colours (or other veg in fact) but I think these work well with the other flavours
• Pasta – Any dried pasta works well. I haven’t tried it with wholemeal pasta but it would probably just take a little longer to cook
• Tinned tomatoes – Any type of chopped tinned tomatoes will work for this. I do find that better quality tomatoes are noticeable if you can
• Fennel seeds – These little monkeys are controversial! I do not like aniseed flavour AT ALL, but in this dish they do somehow just elevate it to something special. Please invest in a jar and try it, and let me know what you think!
• Italian herbs – Any dried Italian herb mix is fine, or oregano if you don’t have a mix
• Chilli flakes – You can add more if you like Spicy Sausage Pasta. It is worth adding this, even for kids, as it really adds a warmth to the dish
• Vegetable stock – Any good quality, fairly low salt, vegetable stock is fine. I think Marigold brand is the best around
• Cream cheese – Any brand is fine, low fat or regular
• Parmesan – Grana Padano is a good, slightly cheaper alternative to Parmesan if you prefer
• Fresh basil – Fresh basil can get very squishy when chopped. I tend to snip into strips with scissors

How to make Sausage Pasta

1. Soften the onions in oil in a large pan with a lid. Meanwhile make up your sausage ‘meatballs’.

2. Add the sausages to the pan, then the peppers.

3. When the sausage is starting to blacken, add the rest of the ingredients and pop the lid on until the pasta is al dente.

4. Add in the cream cheese, parmesan and basil. Stir though to heat and serve immediately.

Hint: I always make up 750ml of stock but only add 500ml to start with. I then check on the pasta as it cooks and add more if it’s looking dry.

Substitutions

• Veggie sausages – You can try this as a vegetarian alternative dish by using chunks of veggie sausages instead. It will work really well
• Vegetables – Feel free to mix up the kind of veggies you add in here, according to your tastes or what you have in and needs using up

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