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Making sauces for freezer meals is not only healthy but also easy to do. This week I made a pesto sausage pasta sauce that can freeze for later use. Here's how I made this one.
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Pesto Sausage Pasta Sauce Freezer Meal Simple Ingredients:
Homemade Pesto (1.5 cup basil-fresh, ¼-1/2 cup olive oil (Affiliate Link), 2 tablespoon of chopped walnuts, 1 garlic-diced, salt and pepper to taste.)
1 tablespoon Olive Oil (Affiliate Link)
½ - ¾ cup onion (chopped)
1 garlic clove minced
3 links of sausage (pork)
1 tablespoon oregano (dried)
1 tablespoon parsley (dried)
Salt and Pepper to taste
Pesto Sausage Pasta Sauce Easy Instructions:
- Make the pesto in a food processor. Add 1.5 cup basil-fresh, ¼-1/2 cup olive oil (Affiliate Link), 2 tablespoon of chopped walnuts, one garlic-diced, salt, and pepper to taste into the food processor and pulse until it is a fine paste. Set aside.
- Add olive oil (Affiliate Link) to the large skillet.
- Add onion and cook till caramelized for 2 minutes or so.
- Add garlic for 1 minute.
- Cut off the skin from the sausage. Add the content to the skillet, add oregano, parsley, salt, and pepper. Mix in. Then, cook until brown.
- Then add the homemade pesto and cook until heated through in the skillet.
- Let site till get to room temperature and then place in a bag for freezing.
- Defrost the bag in the refrigerator.
- Make your favorite pasta. I used my favorite Gluten Free Rigatoni. Cook as instructed and then add the sauce under low heat. Add more olive oil (Affiliate Link) as necessary so that it doesn't stick to the skillet. Add Romano cheese to taste.
Here is the finished meal. Yummy, right?
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Pesto Sausage Pasta Sauce Freezer Meal
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 8
Description
Easy Pesto Sausage Pasta Sauce meal that can be frozen and used at another time.
Ingredients
- Homemade Pesto (1.5 cup basil-fresh, ¼-1/2 cup olive oil (Affiliate Link), 2 tablespoon of chopped walnuts, 1 garlic-diced, salt and pepper to taste.)
- 1 TBSP Olive Oil (Affiliate Link)
- ¾ cup onion (chopped)
- 1 garlic clove minced
- 3 links of sausage (pork)
- 1 TBSP oregano (dried)
- 1 TBSP parsley (dried)
- Salt and Pepper to taste
Instructions
- Make the pesto in a food processor. Add 1.5 cup basil-fresh, ¼-1/2 cup olive oil (Affiliate Link), 2 tablespoon of chopped walnuts, one garlic-diced, salt, and pepper to taste into the food processor and pulse until it is a fine paste. Set aside.
- Add olive oil (Affiliate Link) to the large skillet.
- Add onion and cook till caramelized for 2 minutes or so.
- Add garlic for 1 minute.
- Cut off the skin from the sausage. Add the content to the skillet, add oregano, parsley, salt, and pepper. Mix in. Then, cook until brown.
- Then add the homemade pesto and cook until heated through.
- Let site till getting to room temperature and then place in a bag for freezing.
- Defrost the bag in the refrigerator.
- Make your favorite pasta. I used my favorite Gluten Free Rigatoni. Cook as instructed, and then add the sauce under low heat. Add more olive oil (Affiliate Link) as necessary so that it doesn't stick to the skillet. Add Romano cheese to taste.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 13 minutes
- Category: sauce
- Cuisine: Italian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 52.41 kcal
- Sugar: 0.75 g
- Sodium: 78.42 mg
- Fat: 4.3 g
- Saturated Fat: 0.99 g
- Trans Fat: 0.01 g
- Carbohydrates: 2.02 g
- Fiber: 0.47 g
- Protein: 1.73 g
- Cholesterol: 6.63 mg
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And here is how this recipe looks after it was finished. Yummy, right?
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Janet Barclay says
This sounds really good. I've never made my own pesto. Do you think I could make it with my Braun hand blender?
Sabrina says
I've never made it in a hand blender. A food processor, blender, even a single serve blender will work. You want to make it pretty pulverized because the nuts needs to be broken down.
Susan cooper says
I love pesto sauce. It's easy to make and so flavorful. And Homemade definitely makes a huge difference. This one with sausage sounds interesting. 🙂
Jeri says
Your pesto pasta sausage sounds quite tempting. My basil plant has grown to gigantic proportions and it's time to make some fresh pesto 🙂
Sabrina says
Mine basil plants are the same way. That's way I wanted to do this recipe. =)