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Pasta with Sausage and Mustard
Cooking time:   30 minutes for menu
Cooking schedule: see below for "menu"  instructions

Pasta with Sausage and Mustard sauce                        Time: 30 minutes

8 oz  lean Italian sausage, 3 - 4 depending on size
1 tbs olive oil
1 onion
1 green pepper
4 oz mushrooms
2 cloves garlic
1 tsp oregano
1 tsp thyme
1/2 cup Greek or plain yogurt, or sour cream
1/2 cup white wine
1/2 cup chicken stock
1 1/2 tbs Dijon mustard
1 1/2 tbs whole grain mustard
1 - 2 tbs cornstarch (maizena) dissolved in 2 tbs chicken stock
1 1/4 cups pasta, such as fusilli, penne, rigatoni

Cook pasta according to package directions.  Chop onion, pepper and mushrooms (Help? See techniques.) Mince garlic.  Slice raw sausages into bite-size lengths.  Heat oil over medium heat in nonstick skillet.  Add onions and peppers and sauté 3 minutes.  Add garlic and mushrooms and sauté 3 minutes longer.  Add sausages and sauté until almost cooked through, 5 - 8 minutes, depending on size.  Add herbs, mustards, wine and stock.  Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer 5 - 10 minutes.  Stir cornstarch mixture into sauce to thicken.  You may not need all of it but sauce should be quite thick.  Stir in yogurt, add drained pasta.  Toss to combine and serve.
 
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Cooking schedule: 30 minutes
Assemble all ingredients and utensils
Put water on high heat for pasta
Chop onion, pepper and mushrooms
Mince garlic
Sauté onions and peppers
Slice sausages
Add garlic, mushrooms, sauté
Start to cook pasta

Add sausages, sauté
Add herbs, mustard, stock, simmer
Dissolve cornstarch in stock
Add cornstarch to sauce, thicken
Drain pasta
Stir in yogurt
Add pasta, toss to combine
Serve all and Eat

 

 

 

 

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