Bow Ties with Sausage and Sweet Peppers
Gather bright, colorful sweet peppers from your garden or the farmer's market for this spicy pasta dish.
Recipe Ingredients:
8 ounces dried bow-tie pasta
3/4 pound fresh spicy Italian sausage links
2 medium red and/or green sweet peppers, cut into 3/4-inch pieces
1/2 cup vegetable broth or beef broth
1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
1/4 cup snipped fresh flat-leaf parsley
Cooking Directions:
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, cut the sausage into 1-inch pieces. In a large skillet, cook sausage and sweet peppers over medium-high heat until sausage is brown. Drain off fat.
- Add broth and black pepper to skillet. Bring to boiling; reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Remove from heat. When pasta is cooked, drain well. Toss pasta with sausage mixture and snipped parsley.
Makes 4 servings.
Nutritional Information Per Serving (1/4 of recipe): 397, total fat: 18g, saturated fat: 6g, cholesterol: 94mg, sodium: 713mg, carbohydrate: 38g, fiber: 3g, protein: 24g.
Dietary Exchanges: 1 1/2 starch, 3 vegetable, 2 high-fat meat.
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