Cheese-Stuffed and Sausage Tortellini Mac-n-Cheese
with Crispy Shallot Topping
This rich, delicious sausage mac-n-cheese uses cheese tortellini instead of elbow pasta, and we've topped it with crispy shallots. Perfect for nights when you're craving comfort food.
Ingredients: Cheese tortellini (pasta: durum wheat semolina, water, liquid egg yolk, liquid whole eggs, filling: cheeses (ricotta, parmesan, romano), toasted wheat crumbs, whey, vegetable oil, flavour (milk), water, salt, yeast extract, garlic powder) (egg, milk, wheat) • Mild Italian sausage (pork, spices, salt, sugars (sugar, dextrose), onion, dehydrated garlic, flavour, sunflower oil, water) • 35% Cream (cream, milk, dextrose, cellulose gel, carrageenan, mono and diglycerides, cellulose gum, polysorbate 80, sodium citrate, disodium phosphate) (milk) • Cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, modified milk ingredients, cream, bacterial culture, salt, annatto, beta-carotene, calcium chloride, microbial enzyme, cellulose, natamycin) (milk) • Spinach • Cream cheese (milk ingredients, modified milk ingredients, salt, bacterial culture, lactic acid, guar gum, carob bean gum, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate) (milk) • Parmesan cheese (pasteurized milk, modified milk ingredients, water, modified corn starch and/or potato starch, cheese (milk, bacterial culture, salt, microbial enzyme, lipase), salt, citric acid, sodium phosphate, lactic acid, flavour, sodium citrate, potassium sorbate, caramel colour, beta-carotene, anticaking blend (potato starch, corn starch, dextrose, calcium sulfate, cellulose, natamycin, enzyme)) (milk) • Crispy shallots (onion, palm oil, wheat flour, salt) (wheat) • Cream sauce spice blend (wheat flour, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, canola oil, silicon dioxide) (wheat) • Garlic.
The quantities provided above are averages only.
Produced in a facility that processes eggs, milk, fish, peanuts, sesame, shellfish, soy, tree nuts, and wheat.
Ingredients
350 g
Cheese Tortellini
(Contains: Egg, Milk, Wheat)
2 unit(s)
Cream Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
56 g
Baby Spinach
10 g
Cream Sauce Spice Blend
(Contains: Wheat May contain traces of: Tree nuts, Milk, Mustard, Peanuts, Sesame, Soy, Sulphites)
113 mL
Cream
(Contains: Milk)
½ cup
Cheddar Cheese, shredded
(Contains: Milk)
28 g
Crispy Shallots
(Contains: Wheat May contain traces of: Gluten)
¼ cup
Parmesan Cheese, shredded
(Contains: Milk)
2 unit(s)
Garlic, cloves
250 g
Mild Italian Sausage, uncased
Not included in your delivery
0.13 tsp
Salt*
0.13 tsp
Pepper*
1 tbsp
Butter*
(Contains: Milk)
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
- Before starting, to a large pot, add 10 cups water and 1 tbsp salt (use same for 4 servings). Cover and bring to a boil over high heat.
- Wash and dry all produce.
- Peel, then mince or grate garlic.
- Roughly chop spinach.
- Heat a large non-stick pan over medium-high. When hot, add 1 tbsp (2 tbsp) oil, then sausage. Season with salt and pepper.
- Cook for 4-6 min, breaking up sausage and stirring often until sausage is cooked through.** Transfer to a bowl and cover to keep warm. Carefully wipe out pan.
- Heat the same pan over medium.
- When hot, add 1 tbsp (2 tbsp) butter, then swirl to melt.
- Add garlic, cream cheese and Cream Sauce Spice Blend. Cook for 1 min, stirring constantly, until fragrant and cream cheese softens.
- Slowly whisk in 1/2 cup (1 cup) water. Cook for 1-2 min, stirring occasionally, until mixture is smooth.
- Add cream, half the Parmesan and cheddar cheese. Cook for 1-2 min, whisking often, until slightly thickened.
- Remove the pan from heat, then season with salt and pepper.
- While sauce cooks, add tortellini to the boiling water. Cook for 2-3 min, stirring occasionally, until tender.
- Drain and return tortellini to the same pot, off heat.
- Add sauce, sausage and spinach to the pot with tortellini.
- Stir for 1-2 min, until spinach is wilted and tortellini is coated with sauce.
- Divide tortellini mac-n-cheese between plates.
- Sprinkle over remaining Parmesan and crispy shallots.
If you've opted to add sausage, heat a large non-stick pan over medium-high. When hot, add 1 tbsp (2 tbsp) oil, then sausage. Season with salt and pepper. Cook for 4-6 min, breaking up sausage and stirring often until sausage is cooked through.** Transfer to a bowl and cover to keep warm. Carefully wipe out pan. Use the same pan to cook sauce in step 2.
Add sausage to the tortellini.
