Bucatini with Sweet and Hot Italian Sausage, Garlic and Arugula flowers!
August 1, 2010Ingredients:
Feeds 6 people
10 cloves chopped garlic
1/4 cup X Virgin olive oil
24 oz tomato sauce
1# sweet Italian Sausage
1# hot Italian Sausage
1# dry Bucatini
1/4# grated parmesan cheese
1/4 pound fresh arugula or if you have a garden, arugula flowers
Method-
~ sweat the chopped garlic in olive oil until the garlic is translucent.
~ add the sausage (take it out of the casings first to give it free form.) Cook sausage until brown.
raw sausage out of the casing
~ in a sauce pot- place tomato sauce, sausage and garlic and bring to a boil and season with cracked black pepper and sea salt.
~ in a separate pot- boil pasta in salted water. The normal ratio of water to pasta is 5 parts water to 1 part pasta
*note- 1# dried pasta yields 2# cooked pasta.
~once the pasta is cooked, remove water- add arugula to the sauce and the pasta.
~ toss quickly, place in a large bowl and garnish with grated Parmesan and cracked black pepper……
I nice Malbec and some roasted bread will bring the whole dish together!
