Cheesy Pasta with Sausage
This cheesy pasta with sausage is a different take on the traditional Mac and Cheese.
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups Elbow Pasta
- 1 cup Mexican-Style Cheese shredded
- 2 Sausages sweet or hot
- 2 Tbsp. Butter
- 1/2 Sweet Onion diced
- Parsley chopped, for topping
- Sea Salt to taste
- Black Pepper to taste
- Cayenne Pepper to taste
- Sazonador Total Seasoning to taste
- Italian Herb Seasoning to taste
- Olive Oil for frying
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. This will be used later to cook the pasta.
- In the meantime, bring a small pot of water to a boil, large enough to fit the sausages. Boil the sausages for five minutes.
- Meanwhile, dice your onion and chop the parsley. Set aside.
- After boiling for five minutes, remove the sausages from the boiling water and place on a cutting board. Cut the sausages into thin slices.
- In a large saute pan, add in one tablespoon of butter and a small drizzle of olive oil. Once the butter has melted, add in the onions and saute for about a minute over medium/high heat.
- Add the sausages into the saute pan and saute for about a minute to evenly coat the sausages with the butter, olive oil and onion mix. Add a couple of dashes of the sazonador total seasoning and the Italian herb seasoning and a pinch of sea salt , black pepper and cayenne pepper. Continue to fry for another seven minutes over medium heat.
- While the sausages are cooking, add the elbow pasta into the large pot of boiling, salted water and cook until al dente, or two minutes less than the package instructions.
- After about a minute of the pasta cooking in the water, add a ladle of the pasta water into the saute pan. After about three minutes, add in another ladle of pasta water. Continue to cook over medium/high heat, making sure not to burn the sausages or onions.
- Once the elbow pasta is ready, scoop into the saute pan using a strainer ladle. If you must strain the water, make sure to reserve a cup of the pasta water. Mix the pasta with the sausage.
- Add in a tablespoon of butter and mix until melted. Once the butter has melted, add another ladle of pasta water. and mix together over medium heat. Sprinkle in the cheese and mix until fully combined and melted. Pour in a half ladle of the pasta water and continue to mix to allow the cheesy sauce to thicken.
- Remove from the stove and serve with a sprinkle of parsley on top and an extra crackle of black pepper.