Sausage Pasta Bake recipe please

[Rosielil]

Anyone care to share their favourite sausage pasta bake recipes? I love Jamie Oliver’s with fennel but the kids don’t like it 🙄. Used to make one from here with marscapone but have lost recipe and fancy a change.

Thanks.

I cook the sausages in a pan, then cut with scissors, mix with dry pasta then add a home pride made pasta bake sauce

Cut with scissors to make little meat balls that should say

I was just about to suggest ndjua and fennel but looks like that’s out.

Similarly: cool and slice sausages.

Make a tomato sauce with definitely:

1. Tinned toms
2. Onion
3. Garlic
4. mixed herbs

Then any/all of:

1. Sweet peppers
2. Carrots
3. Courgettes

And any other bits you normally add to a tomato sauce - some red wine or a chicken stock cube etc

Then mix all that up with pasta, shove some cubed mozzarella into the depths of the dish and then top with cheddar and bake til it looks done.

Cook and slice*

I also do one with chopped, browned sausages, onions, garlic, peppers, chopped tomatoes, sweetcorn, basil, oregano and balsamic vinegar. Mix with cooked pasta, top with a mix of mozerella and breadcrumbs and bake.

Browned sausages, tin of tomatoes (arriabata are nice) and chicken and/ or beef stock, salt, pepper garlic and herbs. I slow cook these for hours and add pasta for the last 20-40mins until cooked.
I had onions and peppers in before the tomatoes but the kids fussed about it too much so it's easier without.

I always squeeze the meat out of the sausage skins. Add a dollop jar to cooked pasta, cheese and bake.

I've spent years making my own sauces - the kids love dollop so can't be arsed anymore.

We always add in a diced smoked sausage too.

Thank you! Definitely plenty of choices here! @itwasntaparty, what is a dollop jar please (probably a dumb question!)?

@Rosielil

Thank you! Definitely plenty of choices here! *@itwasntaparty*, what is a dollop jar please (probably a dumb question!)?

I would guess at Dolmio but who knows!

Inspired by Delia's How to cheat at cooking recipe book.

Jar of 'naice' ready made pasta sauce - we use Loyd Grosman bought when on offer. Any flavour, we usually use the tomato and chilli one. Delia said basil, I think.
Half a pack of Herta style hot dog sausages, we use the Aldi version, they appear to be identical at half the price. You could put extra hotdogs in, freeze them for another day, or chop them up in noodles or an omelette with tomatoes or just eat them.
Ball of mozarella cut into cubes
About 200 g of pasta, cooked for about 7 minutes.

Mix everything up and cover with grated cheddar or parmesan. Bake for 15-20 minutes at 200 C until hot and cheese melty. Serve with salad.

I make a spicy tomato sauce with chunky veg, vegetarian sausages and shove in a big dish with cooked pasta (small shapes are best).

Going to have this at the weeknd now .

I fry the sausage, cut into balls with scissors, in a wok. Then take them out and put to one side, add chopped onions and garlic and fry until soft. Chuck in a glass of white wine and a carton of passatta. Add the sausage balls back in with a few balls of frozen spinach and some salt, pepper and a little dried sage or paprika, depending on what kind of flavour you fancy. Cook the pasta, then mix all together. Put in an oven dish and top with grated cheddar, mozzarella and parmesan (or just mozzarella if you prefer) and bake until golden.

I fry the sausages then cut them up, make a tomato sauce with tin of tomatoes, garlic, onion, chicken or veg stock. Mix them all together with the pasta and put them in a casserole dish.

Then make a white sauce (butter, flour and milk), pour the sauce over the top of the dish, bit of grated cheese on top then bake.

The white sauce on top is a game changer!

Frankfurters chopped up, with whatever veg you fancy and a tomato sauce with lots of cheese on it.

For people who are saying add pasta, can you specify dried Vs cooked please?

The idea of making a pasta bake with dried pasta has really pleased me and I want to try it but I'm scared it will be all crispy also I don't eat cheese.

I do pretty much exactly the same as @MalfunctioningRobot.

I got the recipe years ago when I was still a student.

Might even have been from "grub on a grant".

I usually cook my pasta first but it's very al dente or it goes too soggy

I use dried pasta. Brown the sausages and cut them into small balls. Make a tomato based sauce - onions, garlic, chopped tomatoes. (Hide some veg by blending if I can be bothered as if there is a sniff of a vegetable then my youngest won’t eat it.) Then tip the sauce, dried pasta and sausage into a dish and then top up with water. Add a couple of bay leaves and sprigs of thyme and then bake for around 40 minutes. Half way through add cheese on top - although if you don’t like cheese then you can leave it off.

I think you're supposed to cook the pasta first, although in the Delia recipe that I loosely follow, she says 7 minutes, presumably because it continues to cook while it's being baked.

But I can imagine that if you have a more liquid sauce plus dried pasta, it could cook at the same time as baking and soak up some of the liquid.

That's how Hungermama does it, but I don't know how widespread that is.

Squeeze the sausages out in bits to brown, and use smokey sausage or smoked paprika, cook in a sauce with peppers, tinned tomatoes, puree, onions, garlic, herbs. Cook the pasta first (well I do) and before baking cover with loads of mozzarella and cheddar/parmesan.

@BertieBotts

For people who are saying add pasta, can you specify dried Vs cooked please?

The idea of making a pasta bake with dried pasta has really pleased me and I want to try it but I'm scared it will be all crispy also I don't eat cheese.

I think the fundamental principle is you can cook pasta from dry in the oven as long as you add enough water to your dish. (Enough so it cooks the pasta and reduces, not so much that it ends up watery!)

However I always add cheese half way through and the cheese “blanket” seems to help soften the pasta….

Cooking expert I am not, though, my kids just really like pasta…

I like the white sauce on top idea!

I always add a tin of whatever chickpeas/beans are in the cupboard and I likena brocoli chopped up in the pasta bake too.

This BBC one is lush and my DC (one of whom is a fussy git) adore it.