Pasta with Arugula, Onion, Zucchini & Sausage

Get ready to impress yourself with this super easy gourmet meal that’s pretty much just a sauté plus noodles. The savory sausage, sweet onion and zucchini, and peppery arugula are perfection.

Adapted from this recipe from Bon Appétit (image source) for the Week 8 CSA box with Gathering Together Farm’s 2020 Summer Season CSA.

Ingredients

• ·   1 large sweet onion, sliced into ½ inch wedges

  ·   Olive oil

  ·   Salt & freshly ground pepper

  ·   2 sausage links, sweet Italian

  ·   1 package pasta, fresh if you can

  ·   ½ lemon, juiced

  ·   ½-1 bu. arugula, roughly chopped

  ·   1-2 zucchini, sliced into thin disks (LB suggestion)

  ·   3-4 cloves garlic, roughly minced (LB suggestion)

  ·   Finely grated parmesan cheese for serving

Directions

1. Cook your sausage links in a pan until just cooked, set aside.

2. Add another splash of oil to the pan & toss in the zucchini disks, cooking without salting to keep them crisp on the outside without getting mushy. Stir in minced garlic & cook a couple more minutes. Salt, remove from pan & set aside.

3. Add another splash of oil to the pan and start caramelizing your onion.

4. Meanwhile, cook pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water, stirring occasionally, until done to taste. Drain, reserving 1 cup pasta cooking liquid.

5. Combine vegetables, sausage, and pasta in a large bowl. Add lemon juice, about 4 Tbsp. oil, a splash reserved pasta cooking liquid & toss to coat, (adding some butter in if you’d like, I certainly would), until sauce comes together and coats pasta. Toss in arugula. Adjust salt & pepper if needed. Enjoy!