Creamy Goose Sausage Shells - Quick and Easy!
Delicious Canada or Snow Goose sausage and spinach with a creamy, garlicky tomato-based sauce over hardy shell noodles. This wild game recipe is quick, easy and delicious.
Ingredients
- 6 goose sausages uncased
- 4 cups pasta shells uncooked
- 1 cup frozen spinach thawed - drained
- 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 2 large cloves of fresh garlic or more if you’re a garlic lover
- 1 tbsp parsley
- 1 tbsp basil
- 1 tbsp oregano
- ½ tsp crushed red pepper flakes or more if you’re a spice fan
- 800 ml crushed tomatoes one large jar or can
- ⅓ cup cream
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1 tbsp white granulated sugar
- ½ cup pasta water
Instructions
- Heat olive oil in a medium saucepan.
- Dice garlic and add to hot olive oil along with parsley, basil, oregano and red pepper flakes. Sauté for a minute or so until fragrant.
- Add crushed tomato, cream, salt, pepper and sugar. Whisk in flour. Heat sauce and simmer on low, stirring often.
- In a large pot or wok, brown your uncased sausage. (to uncase sausage, find an opening at the end and push the ground sausage meat through the casing). If your sausage is lean, add some oil to the pot/wok first.
- Once the sausage is browned and fully cooked, remove any excess oil and liquid. This is important to ensure your pasta isn’t greasy and runny.
- Add your pasta sauce to the wok or pot with your goose sausage. Keep the temperature on low. Mix often, scraping the bottom of the pot.
- While the sauce and sausage are simmering, boil a large pot of salted water. You want the water to taste like the ocean.
- Add the uncooked pasta to water and cook according to the package. I put my pasta shells in boiling water for 7 minutes.
- When the pasta is finished cooking - take ½ of a cup of the pasta water and add the water and the thawed spinach to the sausage and sauce and mix well.
- Drain water from cooked noodles. Add noodles to sausage and sauce combination. Mix well again and ENJOY!
Notes
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