Recipes

Pasta with Sausage and Cheese (Macaronia me Loukanika ke Tiri)

  • Serves

    serves 2-4

JAMES OSELAND

In this dish from Epirus, pork sausage, blue cheese, and fresh oregano are a gorgeous counterpoint to pasta.

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
  • 6 oz. semi-cured Greek pork sausages or sweet Italian sausages, cut into 1" pieces
  • Kosher salt, to taste
  • 8 oz. pasta, preferably garganelli or penne
  • 12 cup white wine
  • 12 oz. blue cheese, crumbled
  • 14 cup heavy cream
  • 14 cup loosely packed fresh oregano leaves
  • 14 cup grated Parmesan cheese, for garnish
  • Freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Instructions

Step 1

Heat oil in a 12" skillet over medium-high heat. Add sausages and cook, stirring occasionally, until browned, about 7 minutes.

Step 2

Meanwhile, bring a 4-qt. pot of salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook until al dente, about 9 minutes. Strain pasta, reserving 1⁄2 cup pasta cooking liquid; set aside.

Step 3

Add wine to sausages and cook until reduced by one quarter, about 2 minutes. Add the blue cheese, cream, and oregano and cook until the mixture is thick and the cheese has melted, about 2 minutes. Stir in reserved pasta and season with salt. (If sauce seems too thick, stir in some of the reserved pasta cooking liquid.) Transfer pasta to a small platter; garnish with grated cheese and season with black pepper.

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