Pasta with Sausages and Leeks from Vicki Delany

 This is a very rich pasta sauce, but totally delicious. Probably all that butter and the added cheese.

Pasta with Sausages and Leeks 

Ingredients:

2 or 3 Italian sausages (hot or mild to suit your taste)

2 or 3 large leeks

1 cup chicken stock

2 tbsp olive oil

1 tbsp minced shallots

2 tbsp unsalted butter

½ cup grated Parmigiano cheese

1 lb wide fettuccini 

 

Instructions:

Grill or pan fry sausage and slice into ¼ inch slices. Set aside

Trim leeks, keeping white and light green portions. Slice into ½ inch rounds

In sausage skillet, add olive oil  and sauté leeks over moderately high heat, stir occasionally, for about 5 minutes

Add sausages and shallots and cook for about 1 minute

Add 2 tbsp butter, stir and melt into mixture

Add stock sand simmer for about 5 minutes. Salt and pepper to taste

Meanwhile, cook your pasta.

Add cooked pasta to leeks with 2 more tbsp butter and grated cheese.

Toss well and serve.

 

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