This tasty Italian Sausage and Spinach with Ziti 30-minute meal is certain to become part of your meal rotation if you are a sausage lover. The sausage and the flavor of the extra virgin olive oil marry in a complimentary flavor to season the spinach and pasta. The grape tomatoes add a hint of sweetness and color to the dish. The garlic and Parmesan cheese just take this good tasting dish to higher level of greatness.
In the time it takes you to cook the pasta, this complete meal will be ready. It is a perfect week night dinner because not only is it ready in 30 minutes, you will only dirty two pans. You will be serving your family meat, vegetables and a starch all in one dish!
It’s so expensive to buy prepackaged dinners at the grocery store. Cooking at home can save you so much money! Plus, you can often make better meals at home than you would get in a dinner or chain restaurant.
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Some days, you don’t have time to make a slow cooker meal. You have to come up with something quick with ingredients you already have on hand. Our family loves pasta dinners. So, when I’m looking for something to make at the last-minute that is easy to prepare, pasta is my “go to” ingredient. There are so many delicious dishes you can make with adding a pasta mix in.
Therefore, I keep frozen spinach in my freezer because I make soups with it and like to put in pasta and other dishes. I also keep Italian sausage in my freezer too. My pantry is always stocked with pasta.
Our 4 yr old son LOVES pasta! He will walk into the kitchen near dinnertime, pull out a pot and a box of pasta and say “Mom, make me some pasta!”
He is one hungry kid. On Christmas morning, he said he had to eat breakfast before opening his presents. What?! What kid says that?
How to Make Italian Sausage and Spinach with Ziti
To make this tasty dish,
First, Boil the water for the pasta.
Then defrost chopped spinach in the microwave.
Next, in a large frying pan, put some extra virgin olive oil in with some minced garlic and quickly add the ground sausage. Spread out the sausage allowing it to cook for a few minutes.
Then, drain the the defrosted chopped spinach and add it to the sausage. As that is cooking, rinse off the grape tomatoes, halve them and then add them to the sausage. Add a garlic powder, salt and pepper and some shredded Parmesan cheese. Cook it a bit longer and viola, it was ready to mix in with the cooked ziti.
However, you can substitute another tubular pasta if you prefer Penne or Rigatoni. Our family favorite is Ziti. The flavors in this pasta dish really taste great together. If you like red pepper flakes, add some in at the end.
This Italian Sausage and Spinach with Ziti comes together in only 30 minutes! It is an easy, quick, delicious, filling meal to serve your family on a busy weeknight. Your family will love it. It is also a great dish to serve a crowd too, so keep this recipe handy when you are in a pinch.
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Italian Sausage and Spinach with Ziti
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Italian Sausage & Spinach with Ziti
Ingredients
- 16 oz ziti pasta (uncooked)
- 16 oz. ground Italian sausage
- 10 oz frozen spinach
- 1 pint grape tomatoes
- 1 tbsp tomato paste
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1/4 cup shredded or grated Parmesan cheese (optional)
- 3 cloves fresh garlic (minced)
- 1/4 tsp Italian seasoning
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cook ziti package according to package directions.
- Meanwhile, in a large frying pan, heat olive oil on medium heat. When hot, add garlic and simmer for 30 seconds. Add ground sausage and break into small pieces while cooking.
- While sausage is cooking, cut grape tomatoes in half and defrost the spinach in the microwave. Drain spinach of water and add it to the sausage along with the grape tomatoes.
- Add the tomato paste, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper to the sausage and spinach mixture. Cook until the sausage is no longer pink and the tomatoes are soft. Add a 1/2 cup of starchy pasta water to the sausage mixture.
- Combine cooked ziti with the sausage and spinach mixture and serve.
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Sounds delicious Mary! I like that you added some of my homemade sauce. I bet that made it the recipe really good too. Nothing beats a good homemade tomato sauce!
Another no fail, easy recipe! This is such a good filling warm you up recipe! I went to the cupboard and thought what could I make that would satisfy my family. I had all the ingredients. I had some of your sauce recipe frozen and along with the sweet sausage, thawed out some spinach and viola. It was soooo good! This is going in the rotation!
Mushrooms sound perfect to add to this recipe! Glad you liked it.
Quick, easy and delicious. I added tomato sauce instead of paste. I also added fresh mushrooms. I will definitely make this again.
Thanks Farrah!This one smelled so go d while I was taking photos of it that I couldn’t wait to eat it.
Hooray for pasta dishes! :] I actually haven’t made a pasta dish in ages, so that’s definitely going to need to change. This looks amazing!