Chorizo Pasta Recipe with Tinned Cherry Tomatoes & Mushrooms
This simple chorizo sausage pasta recipe cooks in just 25 minutes and uses a pappardelle combined with canned cherry tomatoes and mushrooms to create a delicious, easy dinner!
Servings 2 Servings
Calories 641kcal
Ingredients
- 200 g Cooking Chorizo Sausage 7oz
- 150 g Mushrooms 1½-2 Cups
- 200 g Tin of Cherry Tomatoes 7oz
- 2 tablespoon Sherry Vinegar
- 2 tablespoon Dried Parsley
- ½ teaspoon Black Pepper
- 175 g Dried Pasta 6oz
- Fresh Parsley to Serve
- Salt For boiling pasta
Instructions
- Slit the skin from the sausages and break the meat up into rough 1-1½cm (around ½") pieces.
- Clean and cut the mushrooms into 5mm thick slices
- Heat a medium-large frying pan (28cm or 11") over a medium-high heat. When the pan is hot, add the sausage pieces and cook for 2-3 minutes.
- Once the sausage begins to colour and it lets off some oil, add in the sliced mushrooms and cook for 5 minutes, stirring regularly.
- Bring a 20cm or 8" saucepan of well-salted water for the pasta to a boil. I use 1½-2 teaspoons of salt in a pan this size
- Deglaze the pan with the sherry vinegar, making sure you remove any stuck bits from the base of the pan.
- Add the dried parsley, black pepper and cherry tomatoes, then reduce the heat to low, add a lid and simmer whilst you cook the pasta.
- Cook the pasta for 60 seconds less than the packet instructions.
- Have a taste of the sauce before the pasta is ready, and add more salt if required; it shouldn't because the sausages should have enough salt.
- Just before you add the pasta, lightly crush the cherry tomatoes with a fork.
- Reserve 75ml (⅓ Cup) of the pasta cooking water before draining the pasta and adding it to the sauce.
- Mix well and pour in as much of the pasta water as required to form a nice coating on the pasta. Serve with chopped fresh parsley.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 | Calories: 641kcal | Carbohydrates: 38g | Protein: 32g | Fat: 40g | Saturated Fat: 15g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 23g | Cholesterol: 88mg | Sodium: 1251mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 5g
