Name: Ziti with Sausage, Onions and Fennel
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 pound Ziti; 1 pound Sweet Italian Sausage (Meatless); 1/3 cup olive oil; 2 sliced medium onions; 1/2 teaspoon salt plus salt for pasta water; 1/2 cup tomato sauce; 2-3 cup finely chopped fennel fronds; 1 large fennel bulb (1 lb); 1 cup grated Parmigiano

Ziti with Sausage, Onions and Fennel

This recipe converted from Lidia Bastivanich

Ziti with Sausage, Onions and Fennel

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Total Time 30

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Ingredients

1 pound Ziti
1 pound Sweet Italian Sausage Meatless
1/3 cup olive oil
2 sliced medium onions
1/2 teaspoon salt plus salt for pasta water
1/2 cup tomato sauce
2-3 cup finely chopped fennel fronds
1 large fennel bulb 1 lb
1 cup grated Parmigiano

Instructions

Heat large pot salted water to boiling, drop in ziti until nearly cooked through. Drain and reserve 3 cups of pasta water. While pasta is cooking remove sausage from casing, break up “meat”, trim the fennel bulb, reserve fronds. Slice the bulb lengthwise about 1/4 inch slices.
Separate the slivers of fennel into 2 inch matcchstick pieces. Heat olive oil in skillet over medium high heat. Add the sausage, stirring and breaking up with w wooden spoon until it sizzles and begins to brown. Drop in onion slices and saute in the same pan with they wilt about 2 minutes and then drop in fennel til it wilts for about 1 minute.
Sprinkle on 1/4 teaspoon salt add tomato paste until carmelizing. Then stir everything together. Ladle in saved pasta water and bring to a boil. Reduce and let cook till sauce thickens a little. Drop in Ziti. Mix and then sprinkle in cheese.