EASY SPINACH AND RICOTTA PASTA WITH PEPPERS

A quick and simple food formula with Italian sausage and spinach tossed with a fast ricotta-Parmesan white sauce and peppers. Nice and spicy!

Pasta food! I don’t suppose I do know anyone UN agency doesn’t love food. And I’ve looked. I’ve polled random individuals and no a negative response. Once Patty and that I visited Italy, we tend to skilled food in several forms, with such associate degree awing sort of sauces and accompaniments that we’re still to the current day talking regarding going back.

EASY SPINACH AND RICOTTA PASTA WITH PEPPERS

I’m forever on the lookout for super fast sauce recipes. As I’ve mentioned (complained) before, Patty and that I each work full time with our net business, and that I am a author – to not mention our outstanding Chili Pepper Madness site! – however once it involves lunches or dinners, generally we'd like food during a hurry. 

The ingredients alone area unit straightforward. The longest issue to cook is that the sausage, which is barbecued by the time your food is completed boiling. append some spinach, swirl in cheese and Parmesan cheese with a touch of the food water and boom! Done! Fast! Delicious! Easy! I really like those words.

INGREDIENTS :

• 2 cups rotini noodles
• 8 ounces spicy Italian sausage
• 2 serrano peppers chopped
• 3 garlic cloves chopped
• 1 cup ricotta cheese
• 1 medium red bell pepper chopped (I cut some in long strips because that's how I roll!)
• 1 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
• 6 ounces spinach chopped
• Salt and pepper to taste

INSTRUCTIONS :

1. Heat a pan to medium heat and add Italian sausage. Cook about 5 minutes, breaking it up as you cook.
2. Add peppers and cook about 5 minutes to soften.
3. Add garlic and spinach and stir. Cook about 1 minute.
4. While sausage is cooking, get your salted water boiling and prepare your noodles to your preference. Drain and reserve about a cup of the pasta water.
5. Add noodles back to the pot and stir in ricotta cheese and half of the Parmesan. Stir. Add in the pasta water a bit at a time and stir until it becomes creamy to your preference. You probably won’t use the whole reserved cup.
6. Add the noodles to the sausage-pepper mixture and stir.
7. Add cracked black pepper and salt to taste.
8. Sprinkle on some chopped parsley and serve with extra Parmesan cheese.

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