Italian Sausage & Peppers with Mushroom Cheese Farfalle
Ingredients
- Bowtie (farfalle) pasta - 1lb
- Italian Seasoned Ground Turkey (*like Jennie O Italian Seasoned Ground Turkey, or mild ground Italian sausage- 2 lbs (you can also use link sausage squeezed from casing)
- *If cooking extra sausage to store for use later in the week like Weekly Meal Plan, use 3 lbs
- Green and red bell peppers - (1 each) sliced into strips
- Mushrooms, white, sliced - 8 oz.
- Julienne Cut Sun-Ripened Dried Tomatoes- 8 oz. (*like Mezzetta, found near canned tomatoes)
- Mascarpone cheese- 8 oz.
- Pecorino Romano cheese- 8 oz. (can also use Parmesan, so would need 16 oz. or 2 cups Parmesan total)
- Shredded Parmesan cheese- 8 oz.
Staples:
- Olive oil- 3 tbspns
*Extra cooked sausage is stored in airtight container to use in our Tortellini Soup
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Instructions
- If using Weekly Meal Plan, store half of sliced red and green bell peppers together for Ratatouille Pan Simmered Steak
- Boil pasta in salted water until tender
- Heat olive oil in large skillet over medium-high heat
- Brown ground turkey or sausage until slightly cooked
- Add bell pepper and saute for another 2 minutes with turkey or sausage until peppers become tender and turkey is cooked thoroughly
- Transfer cooked turkey or sausage with peppers to large serving bowl (if you have a "picky eater", set aside a small bowl of cooked turkey or sausage to serve alongside pasta with butter)
- Add sundried tomatoes with oil (do not drain) and mushrooms to same pan over medium-high heat to saute until tender, approximately 2 minutes
- Add Mascarpone cheese and Pecorino cheese, saute until cheese melts into a sauce with the mushrooms and tomatoes
- Before draining pasta, use glass measuring cup to scoop out 1/4 cup of pasta cooking water
- Drain pasta and return to pasta pan
- Add pasta cooking water back to pasta in pan and toss
- Add mushrooms with sundried tomatoes in sauce to serving bowl
- Add cooked pasta to serving bowl (if you have a "picky eater", reserve a small bowl of pasta to toss with some butter and serve alongside cooked turkey or sausage)
- Toss pasta with turkey or sausage, peppers, mushrooms and tomatoes together
- Serve garnished with Parmesan cheese
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