Whole wheat penne with sausage and pistachio is an inviting first course that I discovered by chance 🙂
Yes, this morning I didn’t know what to cook as a first course.
I wanted to prepare a pasta dish different from the usual.
I opened the kitchen cupboard and found a package of pistachios and thought: “I’ll add them to the pasta” but I still wanted to add something else to make the first course richer.
I opened the fridge and found some sausage I bought yesterday that I wanted to cook in the oven with potatoes, but eventually decided to use it in the pasta 🙂
That’s how this first course was born: very good because it’s tasty and flavorful.
It’s definitely worth making again whenever you want: to be served at any time of the year, even for important occasions 😉
I used whole wheat penne, but you can use any type of pasta you have available.
Whole wheat penne with sausage and pistachio is a dish suitable for everyone, and if you make generous portions, it can become a single dish.
I used unsalted pistachios because I prefer them, but if you can’t find them, feel free to use salted ones and decrease the amount of salt or omit it.
P.S.: I also recommend trying the:
- Difficulty: Easy
- Cost: Medium
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Portions: 4 people
- Cooking methods: Stove
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
- Energy 812.56 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 72.64 (g) of which sugars 5.97 (g)
- Proteins 32.61 (g)
- Fat 47.05 (g) of which saturated 3.48 (g)of which unsaturated 20.39 (g)
- Fibers 6.49 (g)
- Sodium 1,121.99 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 100 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 for Whole Wheat Penne with Sausage and Pistachio
- 11 oz whole wheat penne
- 10.5 oz sausage
- 1.5 cups unsalted pistachios
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- to taste salt
- to taste pepper
Tools
- 1 Pot
- 1 Pan
- 1 Spoon
- 1 Ladle
- 1 Chopper
Steps for Whole Wheat Penne with Sausage and Pistachio
Bring a pot of salted water to a boil, add and cook the pasta until al dente, and set aside some of the cooking water.
Meanwhile, shell the pistachios, chop them, and set them aside.
Remove the casing from the sausage and cut it into pieces.
In a pan, brown the sausage pieces with a tablespoon of olive oil.
(If it dries out too much, you can add a bit of pasta cooking water).
After 20 minutes, add the pasta with a few ladles of pasta cooking water and cook for a few minutes. Add the chopped pistachios, salt, and pepper to taste.
Mix everything well. Turn off the heat and serve in individual plates.
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