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goose1
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to make sausage, fennel and pesto pasta you will need:
- 500g pasta
- 6 sausages, skins removed
- ½ tsp fennel seeds
- ½ tsp black pepper
- 1 red onion, sliced
- cook the pasta according to the instructions, towards the end of the cooking time take half-a-mugful of the pasta water for later on
- meanwhile, heat a large frying pan over a medium high heat, sling in some oil and chuck in the fennel seeds, cook for about 30 seconds
- add the onion and saute until it softens, about 5 minutes or so
- mash the sausages the best you can with a fork and chuck into the pan, stir quickly to make sure it stays as broken up as possible – it doesn’t hurt to get a potato masher and smash things up a bit
- add the black pepper, reduce the heat and keep stirring every now and again – don’t worry if bits stick to the bottom of the pan – that’s good
- stir the pesto into the mug of pasta water and add to the pan and use it to scrape off any bits on the bottom of the pan
- add the drained pasta to the pan and stir so it’s coated evenly in the pesto sauce and the sausage is mixed in
- serve