Fettuccine with Creamy Tomato & Sausage Sauce

[exreo]

Fettuccine With Creamy Tomato & Sausage Sauce

Ingredients
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 3 shallots, chopped
• 2 large garlic cloves, chopped
• 1 pound sweet Italian sausages, casings removed
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 2 14.5-oz cans diced tomatoes in juice with Italian seasongs
• 1 tablespoon dried sage
• 1/2 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper
• 3/4 pound fettuccine
• 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese

Directions
Heat oil in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add shallots and garlic and sauté until beginning to soften—about 3 minutes. Add sausages and sauté until no longer pink, breaking up with back of a fork, about 5 minutes. Add cream & simmer 5 minutes. Add tomatoes with juices, sage and crushed red pepper. Simmer until sauce thickens, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes.

Meanwhile cook pasta in large pot of boiling salted water until just tender but still firm to bite. Drain pasta, reserving 1/2 cooking liquid.

Return pasta to same pot and add sauce. Toss over medium heat until sauce coats pasta and adding reserved liquid by 1/4 cupfuls if mixture is dry. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer to bowl, and sprinkle with cheese and serve.

Note: You can sauté the sausage separately and drained before adding to sauce because it makes too much grease when I put it into the mixture.
Can double it and mix with a pound package Farfalle bow tie pasta. There is sauce left over that I freeze. This can be frozen when mixed & pasta too.

[pigcharlie]

I appreciate that you have shared your version of Fettuccine. Actually, I already did a similar one by using spaghetti noodles. Though, I'll try this new recipe later.

[Groggybear]

sounds delicious

[JackDavis]

i definitively need try this out