Pici with Italian Sausage

Pici with Italian Sausage

Serves: 4 , Ready in 30-45 minutes -

INGREDIENTS

• Pici Pasta- 1 lb.
• Fortunas Italian Sausage, 1lb, casing removed - hot or sweet to your liking
• Cherry tomatoes fresh or can (drained)
• Chianti Red wine- 1 cup
• Onion-1 med diced
• Garlic – 2-3 cloves chopped
• Black pepper- pinch
• spicy red chili pepper- to you taste
• extra virgin olive oil- 3 Tablespoons Approx.
• salt for pasta cooking
• Romano pecorino grated – few Tbls -to taste

Directions:

Finely chop the onion, cut the cherry tomatoes in half or drain can

Remove the casing from the sausage.

Fry the garlic and onion in a pan with the olive oil.

Add the sausage meat & cook but not browned.

Add cherry tomatoes, peppers then…

Pour in a glass of Chianti and cook on low heat for about 30 min.

While cooking above, cook the PICI Pasta, drain and reserve a cup or so of pasta water

Add the PICI to sausage sauce and toss to cover all pasta, adding, if necessary, a little cooking water to keep it silky.

Serve, with a sprinkle of Romano Pecorino.