Rigatoni with ‘embarrassingly simple’ sausage and red wine ragu

2 days ago 2

Danielle Alvarez

I’ve been making this pasta for years. It’s embarrassingly simple: essentially, you conscionable harvester each the ragu ingredients successful a cookware and simmer for an hr – nary slicing, dicing oregon chopping required. Just take good-quality, Italian-style sausages and spot them to supply each the seasoning you need. All that’s near to bash is to flip the cooked rigatoni successful the sauce; this repast volition sensation arsenic if you’ve been moving connected it each day.

Ingredients

3 tbsp other virgin olive oil
500g Italian pork sausages, removed from their casings
¼ tsp chilli flakes
500ml chickenhearted stock
1 tbsp herb paste
400g herb passata
60ml reddish wine
½ tsp fennel seeds
salt and achromatic pepper
500g dried rigatoni pasta
grated parmigiano reggiano, to serve

Method

Step 1
To marque the ragu, harvester each the ingredients, but the dried pasta, successful a medium-sized cookware and bring to a simmer implicit mean to precocious heat.
Step 2
Place the lid ajar connected the cookware and little the vigor to medium-low. Simmer mildly for 1 hour.
Step 3
Uncover the cookware and sensation for seasoning; set if necessary. Remove from the vigor and usage a fork oregon a murphy masher to interruption down the pork sausage. Set aside.
Step 4
Bring a cookware of salted h2o to the boil and navigator the pasta, according to the bundle instructions, until al dente. Drain, reserving astir 200ml of the cooking water.
Step 5
Place the sausage ragu backmost implicit a mean to precocious vigor and adhd the drained pasta. Add fractional the reserved pasta h2o and disturbance vigorously. If needed, adhd a small much h2o truthful the condiment coats each the pasta.
Step 6
Divide into bowls and apical with the freshly grated parmigiano reggiano.

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