Italian Pasta Rockefeller
Not sure about where this got its name, but it certainly sounds good, on my to cook list. Feel free to use jarred Alfredo sauce instead of from scratch, totally up to your preference. Link to the shortcut is listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil
- 1 medium oinion, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, smashed and minced
- 500 grams bulk pork sausage, OR make from a shortcut
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 1/2 cup chicken stock, fresh or from powder
- 1 bag fresh leaf spinach, I will verify quantity
- 500 grams Cavatelli pasta, or Penne pasta
- Parmesan cheese, grated, for serving
For the Alfredo Sauce
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 2 cloves garlic, smashed and minced
- 1 cup Parmesan cheese, shredded
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a large non stick pan (one that has a lid) and add the onion and garlic and saute until the onion is soft. Add the sausage and break that up with the spatula as it cooks.
- When the sausage is cooked through and no longer pink, stir in the wine and stock.
- Turn the heat to low, add the spinach and cover.cover the pan and allow mixture to come to a boil.
- Uncover and stir, allow mixture to reduce.
- While the pan is simmering on very low heat, heat a pot of salted water to boiling then cook the pasta until tender, then drain and rinse.
- While waiting for the pasta to cook, make the Alfredo sauce. Simply add the Alfredo sauce ingredients to a sauce pan on medium or medium low heat, and whisk continuously until the cheese is melted in and the sauce thickens.
- Add the sauce to the sausage mixture and mix together, pour the sauce over the drained and rinsed pasta.
- Serve, have grated Parmesan cheese for individual preference as well as salt and pepper, enjoy.
Notes
If you make the sausage yourself, very easy, the cost is about 50 Baht for the pork (using pork shoulder or butt). The cheese figure about 100 Baht. For 6 servings, this is about 75 cents per serving.
Shortcut: Pork Sausage.
Adapted from an internet recipe.
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