Everyday Cooking Adventures' Chicken-Apple Sausage, Zucchini & Tortellini Pasta

I made this tonight with some various things in the fridge I wanted to use up. You could definitely add a sauce if you wanted or some fresh or canned diced tomatoes. But I loved it just the way it was. It had most of the food groups: grain, meat, vegetable, dairy, and a little healthy fat in the form of olive oil. I love to make pasta whenever I have only one or two veggies left in the fridge and not much in the form of poultry or meat or fish. It’s so easy to just throw some odds and ends together and add pasta (I prefer the fresher Buitoni stuff than dry).

Chicken-Apple Sausage Pasta ©EverydayCookingAdventures 2012

Chicken-Apple Sausage, Zucchini & Tortellini Pasta

By: Everyday Cooking Adventures, 2012
Serves 2
Hands-on time 10 minutes
Total time 15 minutes

Ingredients:

Fresh or dry pasta
1 zucchini
1 chicken-apple sausage
3 slices prosciutto
1/2 cup parmesan cheese (or as desired)
pinch red pepper flakes
1 tbsp Italian seasoning
salt & pepper
Olive Oil

Directions:

1. In a medium saucepan heat water to boiling. Add a dash of salt and olive oil to the water once boiling. Add pasta and cook as package directs. For Buitoni tortellini about 5 minutes.

2. While water is heating, chop sausage and zucchini into rounds. Layer the 3 slices of prosciutto on top of each other and slice into one inch wide strips. Separate the layers.

3. In a saute pan, warm a tbsp olive oil in medium heat. Add the sausage and heat through for 3 minutes. Add prosciutto to pan to start crisping for 2 minutes. Add zucchini, red pepper flakes, seasoning, and salt and pepper as desired. Heat through for another 2 minutes.

4. Drain pasta except a splash of the cooking water and return to saucepan. Pour in contents of the sauté pan and stir until pasta is coated and mixed. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Serve immediately.