Italian Vegetable and Sausage Pasta
Delicious pasta dish that is filled with vegetables, Italian sausage, feta and parmesan cheese.
Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
- 8 ounces dry pasta - spaghetti or preferred pasta
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons salted butter
- 6 cloves garlic or 2 tablespoons - minced
- 3 Italian sausage links - the large ones
- 1/2 teaspoon salt - plus more to taste
- pinch black pepper
- 1 yellow squash - diced
- 1/4 cup sundried tomatoes - minced
- 8 ounces mushrooms - sliced optional
- 1 bunch swiss chard - red rainbow or green will work - diced, stems left on
- 1/2 cup feta cheese
- 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to package directions, drain set aside.
- Prep vegetables by mincing garlic, dicing yellow squash, sundried tomatoes, mushrooms and swiss chard.
- Slice uncooked Italian sausages into roughly 1/2 inch rounds.
- In a large skillet, add olive oil, butter, garlic and sausage to the skillet and sauté until sausage begins to cook.
- Add in the salt, pepper, squash, sundried tomatoes, mushrooms and swiss chard and stir until the sausage is cooked through and the vegetables are tender.
- Add in you pasta and stir mixture together.
- Sprinkle with feta cheese and parmesan and add a sprinkle of salt on top, give one final mix so the feta begins to melt into the hot pasta.
- Serve and enjoy.