
Succulent Spiced 'Sausage' Pasta
- Super simple
- 0:25 m
- 9 ingredients
This is the meaty vegan pasta recipe you've been waiting for.It's definitely good enough for date night. Don't believe us? Try it! Happy cooking x
Serves: 2
Ingredients
For the recipe
- 1 tbsp sun-dried tomato oil - from the jar
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tbsp fennel seeds
- 1 tbsp peppercorn - more to serve
- 1 tbsp Nooch - more to serve
- 4 tbsp sun-dried tomato pesto
- 6 plant-based cumberland sausages
- 6 sun-dried tomatoes
- 250g pasta - of your choice- we like strozzapreti
Before you start
Mortar and pestle l Big pan l Frying pan
Step 1
Prepare the ingredients
- Slice open the sausages and remove the “skin”
- Finely slice the sun dried tomatoes
- Put the fennel seeds and peppercorns in the mortar and grind them into a powder with the pestle
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp fennel seeds
- 1 tbsp peppercorn - more to serve
- 6 plant-based cumberland sausages
- 6 sun-dried tomatoes
Step 2
Prepare the pasta
- Add a big pinch of salt to a big pot of boiling water, add the pasta and cook according to the package instructions (approx 9 - 11 mins, depending on the shape of the pasta)
Ingredients
- 250g pasta - of your choice- we like strozzapreti
Step 3
Prepare the sauce
- Warm the oils in the frying pan over high heat
- Crumble the sausage into pan and stir for 4 minutes
- Add the ground pepper and fennel seeds to the pan and stir for 1 minute
- Add the sun dried tomatoes and stir for 3 minutes
- Add the nooch and sun dried tomato pesto and stir for 1 minute
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp sun-dried tomato oil - from the jar
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tbsp Nooch - more to serve
- 4 tbsp sun-dried tomato pesto
Step 4
Finish and serve
- Pick the basil leaves and shred
- Spoon a ladleful of pasta water into the frying pan, stir to combine and turn off the heat
- Drain the pasta with a colander and immediately transfer the pasta to the frying pan
- Sprinkle half the basil over the pasta, stir the pasta into the sauce until well covered
- Transfer the pasta into serving bowls, season with nooch and pepper, garnish with the remaining basil and serve immediately