Creamy Burrata Pasta with Sausage
This Creamy Burrata Pasta with Sausage is rich, cozy, and bursting with flavor from slow-simmered tomato sausage sauce and silky burrata cheese. Every bite is a mix of creamy, spicy, tangy perfection that tastes like something you’d order at a restaurant, but it’s actually super easy to make at home!
Servings: 4 servings
Ingredients
- 1 ½ tbsp olive oil
- 1 brown onion chopped
- salt to taste
- 1 ½ tsp crushed garlic
- ½ tsp red pepper flakes
- ¼ tsp fennel seeds
- 1 lb Italian sausage
- 28 oz can diced tomatoes
- cracked black pepper to taste
- ½ cup milk
- zest 1 lemon
- 14 oz dried pasta
- 2 small balls burrata
- ¼ cup shredded basil to serve
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a large, heavy bottomed saucepan or Dutch oven over a medium high heat. Once it is shimmering, cook the onion with a generous pinch of salt for 8-10 minutes until soft, and just starting to color. Stir in the garlic, red pepper flakes and fennel seeds, and cook for a further minute until the garlic is soft and aromatic.
- Crumble in the sausage, and cook, breaking it up with the back of your wooden spoon until it is cooked through and starting to color; this should take another 10 minutes.
- Stir the tomatoes into the sausage, and season well with black pepper, and a little more salt. Do not discard the empty can.
- Turn the heat up to high, then reduce to medium low, allowing the sauce to simmer for 20 minutes, periodically stirring and scraping any browned bits off the bottom of the pan into the sauce.
- Pour the milk into the tomato can, and use it to wash any residual tomato juices into the sauce. Add the lemon zest and simmer for a final 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, cook the pasta as per the packets instructions, reserving a little of the pasta cooking water.
- Add the drained pasta to the sauce, and stir until combined, adding a little pasta water if things look a little dry; you’re aiming for the sauce to coat the pasta with a glossy sauce.
- Check to see if it needs any more salt and pepper before serving in warm bowls topped with the torn burrata and the shredded basil.
Notes
Meal prep option - The sausage pasta sauce, without the burrata and the basil freezes really well so is perfect for meal prep.
Make it spicy - You can increase or reduce the red pepper flakes to adjust the spiciness of the sauce.
Nutrition
Calories: 505kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 19g | Fat: 42g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 20g | Cholesterol: 90mg | Sodium: 866mg | Potassium: 757mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 357IU | Vitamin C: 23mg | Calcium: 130mg | Iron: 3mg
