Olive Garden Neapolitan Ziti
This is just the dinner you may be looking for. This is made with pasta, and a few ingredients that you can find readily in your refrigerator. Best of all this meal takes just minutes to prepare. You can be a little flexible with what you have in your refridgerator.
1 1/2 lbs. Sweet/hot Italian link sausage
1 1/3 C. Green bell pepper – chopped
2 Tbsp. olive oil
3/4 lb. ziti pasta – cooked
Parmesan cheese – grated
parsley bouquets
5 C. marinara sauce
28 oz. canned tomatoes-Italian style or plum
10 3/4 oz. tomato puree
1 tsp. garlic – minced
4 Tbsp. olive oil
1/2 C. fresh basil – packed and chopped
salt and pepper
Bake or pan-fry the sausages until fully cooked, drain, cool. Halve the sausages and cut the split sausages into 1/2″ slices. Saute the bell peppers in olive oil over moderate heat only until their crispness is loss, but peppers are not soft. In a heavy sauce pan add the tomatoes, tomato puree, garlic, olive oil and fresh basil and bring to a light simmer on moderate heat. Add the sauteed pepper strips and cooked sausage and heat for 3 to 5 minutes.
Serve the pasta, topped with the sausage, peppers and salsa marinara and garnish each plate with a parsley bouquet. Pass the Parmesan
Serve the pasta, topped with the sausage, peppers and salsa marinara and garnish each plate with a parsley bouquet. Pass the Parmesan
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