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Cavatelli With Spicy Tomato-sausage Sauce

A home-style Cavatelli With Spicy Tomato-sausage Sauce made with Quick Tomato Sauce, Hot Italian Sausage, Olive Oil, Reserved Juice From Canned Tomatoes, and Fresh Basil Chopped. Serves 4. Scale it up or down for the number of people at the table.

Ingredients

• 2 cup
• 12 oz
• 1 tbsp
• 1/2 cup
• 2 tbsp
• 3/4 lb
• 3/4 cup

Method (preview)

1. 1

   PREPARATION: For The Sauce, make the Quick Tomato Sauce.

2. 2

   Remove casing from sausage.

3. 3

   Heat olive oil in large frying pan over medium heat; saute sausage, breaking into small pieces, until color turns pale and sausage is just cooked through, about 10 minutes.

4. 4

   Add the Quick Tomato Sauce, basil, and tomato juice; simmer, uncovered, over low heat for 5 minutes.

5. 5

   Sauce can be made 1 day ahead.

6. 6

   COOKING AND SERVING: Cook the pasta in 4 quarts boiling, salted water until just tender, about 8 minutes.

7. 7

   Drain well.

8. 8

   Reheat the sauce.

9. 9

   Toss the pasta with sauce.

10. 10

    Serve on warmed serving dishes.

11. 11

    Garnish each serving with 3 tablespoons ricotta.

12. 12

    [COOKS; May/Jun 1988] Posted by Fred Peters.