Weight Watchers Italian Sausage And Pepper Pasta

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb uncooked italian turkey sausage, casings removed
• 2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
• 2 medium yellow peppers, cut into 2 inch long thin strips
• 4 ounces red wine
• 1 1/2 tablespoons minced garlic
• 28 ounces crushed tomatoes, fire roasted recommended
• 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 8 ounces uncooked whole wheat fusilli
• 1/3 cup fresh basil, chopped

Recipe

• 1 bring large pot of lightly salted water to boil.
• 2 meanwhile, to make sauce, in large nonstick skillet over medium high heat, cook sausage stirring and breaking up meat with back of wooden spoon, until cooked through, about 3 to 5 minutes; remove to a plate.
• 3 heat oil in same skillet. add yellow peppers and onion; cook, stirring frequently, until vegetables are lightlycolored and crisp tender, about 5 minutes.
• 4 add wine and garlic; cook until most of liquid evaporate, about 1 minute. add tomatoes, crushed red pepper, salt and browned sausage; bring to a boil. reduce heat to medium low, cover and simmer until vegetables are tender and sauce is heated through, about 10 minutes.
• 5 while sauce simmers, add pasta to boiling water and cook according to package instructions. drain pasta; return to pot. add sauce and basil; toss to mix and coat. yields about 1 1/3 cups per serving.
• 6 notes:.
• 7 auce is also good over rice.
• 8 toss in some fennel seeds for even greater flaver.