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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats	Italian	Italian, Pasta, Sauces, Meats	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Quick Tomato Sauce
12	oz	Hot Italian sausage
1	tb	Olive oil
1/2	c	Reserved juice from canned tomatoes (or water)
2	tb	Fresh basil, chopped (1 1/2 tsp dried)
3/4	lb	Cavatelli or penne
3/4	c	Ricotta

INSTRUCTIONS

PREPARATION:  For The Sauce, make the Quick Tomato Sauce. Remove casing
from sausage.  Heat olive oil in large frying pan over medium heat; saute
sausage, breaking into small pieces, until color turns pale and sausage is
just cooked through, about 10 minutes.  Add the Quick Tomato Sauce, basil,
and tomato juice; simmer, uncovered, over low heat for 5 minutes. Sauce can
be made 1 day ahead.
COOKING AND SERVING:  Cook the pasta in 4 quarts boiling, salted water
until just tender, about 8 minutes. Drain well. Reheat the sauce. Toss the
pasta with sauce.  Serve on warmed serving dishes. Garnish each serving
with 3 tablespoons ricotta.
Makes 4 servings.
[COOKS; May/Jun 1988] Posted by Fred Peters.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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