1 1/2 pounds Sweet/hot Italian link sausage
1 1/3 cups Green bell pepper -- 1x1/4"
2 tablespoons olive oil
3/4 pound ziti pasta -- cooked
parmesan cheese -- grated
parsley bouquets
5 cups marinara sauce
28 ounces canned tomatoes-Italian style or plum
10 3/4 ounces tomato puree
1 teaspoon garlic -- minced
4 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cup fresh basil -- packed, chopped
salt and pepper
Recipe
Bake or pan-fry the sausages until fully cooked, drain, cool. Halve the
sausages and cut the split sausages into 1/2" slices. Saute the bell peppers
in olive oil over moderate heat only until their crispness is loss, but
peppers are not soft. In a heavy sauce pan add the tomatoes, tomato puree,
garlic, olive oiil and fresh basil and bring to a light simmer on moderate
heat. Add the sauteed pepper strips and cooked sausage and heat for 3 to 5
minutes.
Serve the pasta, topped with the sausage, peppers and salsa marinara and
garnish each plate with a parsley bouquet. Pass the Parmesan.