Creamy Sausage Tortellini with Spinach, Tomatoes and Mozzarella cheese sauce – Italian style easy dinner! Buy those pre-made tortellini in the store, smother them with this delicious homemade creamy sauce, and your dinner is ready!
Creamy Mozzarella, Sausage, Spinach, and Tomato Tortellini – easy, delicious pasta dinner that’s easy to make, yet it tastes like something you would get in a good Italian restaurant. You’ll love this recipe and the simplicity of how to make it.
For this recipe, I used fresh pork sausage (uncooked), Jimmy Dean brand, the kind of sausage that comes uncooked in a sausage roll, 16 oz. I used the regular pork sausage, and the Italian sausage can be used too. I like to use this kind of sausage, because it’s flavorful, simple, crumbly and easy to cook.
For this recipe, I used fresh pork sausage (uncooked), Jimmy Dean brand, the kind of sausage that comes uncooked in a sausage roll, 16 oz. I used the regular pork sausage, and the Italian sausage can be used too. I like to use this kind of sausage, because it’s flavorful, simple, crumbly and easy to cook.
Enjoy!
Creamy Sausage Tortellini with Spinach, Tomatoes and Mozzarella cheese sauce
Italian style easy dinner! Buy those pre-made tortellini in the store, smother them with this delicious homemade creamy sauce, and your dinner is ready!
PREP TIME 10minutes mins
COOK TIME 30minutes mins
TOTAL TIME 40minutes mins
COURSE Main Course
CUISINE Italian
SERVINGS 4 servings
CALORIES PER SERVING 630 kcal
Ingredients
16 oz Italian pork sausage or regular, fresh, uncooked, I used Jimmy Dean brand
14 oz diced tomatoes
¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
⅛ teaspoon paprika
2 cups cheese tortellini
2 cups spinach uncooked
1 cup half and half
¼ cup Mozzarella cheese shredded
salt to taste
Instructions
In a large skillet, cook sausage, crumbling it and stirring, on medium heat until done and no longer pink. Drain the fat from the skillet.
Add diced tomatoes (with the liquid from the can of diced tomatoes) to the skillet. Add red pepper flakes, paprika. Mix on low simmer.
In a separate pan, cook tortellini according to the package instructions. Drain, and add them to the pan with the sausage and tomatoes.
Add uncooked spinach, mix. Add half and half, bring to gentle boil, reduce to simmer, cover with lid and let spinach wilt for a couple of minutes, covered. Remove the lid, stir. Bring the mixture to a gentle medium boil. Add ¼ cup mozzarella cheese and stir until the cheese melts.
Taste, and add salt, extra paprika, and extra crushed red pepper flakes, if needed, to taste.
Nutrition
Nutrition Information
Creamy Sausage Tortellini with Spinach, Tomatoes and Mozzarella cheese sauce
Amount per Serving
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KEYWORD
sausage tortellini, tortellini
