Rotelle with roasted zucchini and italian sausage
Rotelle with roasted zucchini and italian sausage recipe in the zucchini category
Recipe ingredients:
- 2 1/2 pounds zucchini, scrubbed and sliced thin crosswise
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 1/2 pounds fresh italian sausage
- 1/4 cup loosely packed fresh mint leaves, minced, or 2 teaspoons dried mint combined with 1/4 cup minced fresh parsley leaves
- 2/3 cup plain yogurt at room temperature
- 1/2 pound rotelle, corkscrew shaped pasta, or penne, quill shaped pasta
Recipe method:
- Arrange the zucchini in a jelly roll pan.
- Drizzle with the oil and roast in the middle of a preheated 450 degrees F oven, stirring occasionally, for 15 to 20 minutes, or until it is golden.
- While the zucchini is roasting, discard the casings from the sausage.
- In a heavy skillet cook the meat over moderate heat, stirring and breaking up the lumps, until it is no longer pink.
- Transfer it with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain.
- In a large bowl stir together the zucchini, the sausage, the mint, the yogurt, salt and pepper to taste.
- In a kettle of boiling salted water boil the rotelle until it is al dente. Drain well.
- Toss with the zucchini mixture.
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