Sicilian Sausage in Tomato Sauce

Recipe in pot and also with Thermomix.

Delicious, especially the Sicilian one flavored with wild fennel seeds, and sometimes stuffed only with caciocavallo, and sometimes enriched with tomato and escarole.

Today I propose it to you with a fresh mushroom sauce, and you can also season the pasta.

The sausage is typically a winter dish, and we could cook it not only with sauce but also on the grill, or in the oven perhaps accompanied by aromatic potatoes.

Here you will also find the recipe for homemade seasoned sausage, or you can cook the one you find at the butcher.

The only thing that might change is the size, as the typical Sicilian is thin, while elsewhere it is customary to use a thicker casing, so you will need to increase the cooking times.

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Cost: Economical
Preparation time: 5 Minutes
Portions: 4
Cooking methods: Stove
Cuisine: Regional Italian
Region: Sicily
Seasonality: Autumn, Winter, and Spring

696.65 Kcal

calories per serving

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Energy 696.65 (Kcal)
Carbohydrates 18.65 (g) of which sugars 4.04 (g)
Proteins 31.90 (g)
Fat 57.06 (g) of which saturated 1.48 (g)of which unsaturated 0.53 (g)
Fibers 3.93 (g)
Sodium 2,170.14 (mg)

Indicative values for a portion of 350 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA^* and FoodData Central^** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.

^* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ^** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov

Ingredients

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1.54 lbs sausage
Half Tropea red onion
1 carrot
1 stalk celery
10.5 oz mushrooms
24.7 oz tomato puree
to taste salt
2.5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

Tools

What we need

1 Knife
1 Cutting board
1 Pan or the Thermomix

Steps

Recipe in pan

Chop onion, celery, and carrots
transfer to a pan with the oil
Clean the mushrooms with a cloth and cut them into pieces.
Sauté the vegetable mix for 3 minutes then add the mushrooms and cook for at least another 4 minutes, add a small pinch of salt so the mushrooms release excess water
Then add the tomato puree and sausage. Cover with a splash guard and cook for 20 minutes from boiling if it is thin Sicilian sausage, if it is thick sausage increase the cooking time up to 40 minutes.
Here is the Sicilian Sausage in Tomato Sauce ready to be served.
Place the sausage in the Varoma between it and the tray, and close with the lid.
Put the onion, carrot, and celery coarsely chopped into the bowl, and chop for 10 sec speed 8.
Gather with the spatula, add the extra virgin olive oil and cook for 3 min. 230°F speed 1 counterclockwise with the basket instead of the measuring cup.
Put the mushrooms into the bowl.
The tomato puree, 1 glass of water, and a small pinch of salt
Put the Varoma and cook for 25 min. Varoma temperature counterclockwise speed 1
At the end of cooking, remove the Varoma and….
Pour the sauce into a plate and add the sausage.
With the leftover sauce, you can also dress the pasta.