One Pan Pasta - Tomato Sausage & Lentil
One Pan Pasta is such a great family friendly meal to make in the middle of a busy week. My kids LOVE pasta. If I serve a meal with pasta it will be winner in my house, which is why I love the one pan method!
You don’t have to bother with cooking the pasta separately, it literally cooks in the sauce. Because let’s be realistic, our cooking practices change a little when we go from being DINKS to SINKS (Double Income No Kids, Single Income Numerous KidS)
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In this recipe, I use a couple of other products to help make things easier and affordable. Tinned tomatoes are brilliant, look for ones with no added salt or sugar, they make meals simple, healthy and cheap
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. Tinned lentils are also so good. I often halve the meat content in a recipe and replace it with tinned lentils, chickpeas or beans, to both cut the cost and improve the nutrition. I’ve done just this in my One Pan Sausage & Lentil Pasta.
One Pan Pasta - Sausage Tomato & Lentils
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Equipment
- 1 Large pan or skillet with a lid
Ingredients
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1 large onion diced
- 1 cup celery diced
- 1 cup carrots diced
- 3 sausages 225 grams
- 3 cloves garlic crushed
- 1 Tablespoon thyme dried
- 400 grams crushed tomatoes canned
- 400 grams whole peeled tomatoes canned
- 400 grams lentils canned, 250 grams drained and rinsed.
- 2 cups stock 500 millilitres
- 350 grams pasta penne, 3 and a half cups
- 3 handfuls baby spinach leaves optional
Instructions
- Heat oil in the pan over a medium heat
- Add the onion, celery, and carrot and sauté until beginning to soften (around 5 mins).
- Cut up the sausage meat into bite-sized pieces, add this to the pan and brown.
- Add the garlic cloves and thyme. Sauté everything for a further 1-2 minutes until you can smell the garlic.
- Add both tins of tomatoes, the lentils and the stock, give everything a good stir.
- Add the dry pasta, stir, let the mix come to the boil, then cover with a lid and reduce the heat to low. It should take around 15 mins for the pasta to become tender, but this will vary a little depending on the pasta shape you have chosen.
- Optional: Add 2 to3 handfuls of baby spinach leaves to the pan, cover with the lid for 1-2 minutes until wilted, then stir through the pasta.
- If the pasta is not quite tender when you remove the lid, pop the lid back on and cook for a further couple of minutes. If the pasta sauce is thinner than you would prefer, cook the pasta for a few more minutes with the lid off so that extra moisture can escape.
- Enjoy
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My whole family loved this meal - every one had second helpings! Thank you so much!