Creamy Cheese Sausage Tortellini
with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto and Spinach
Cheese-stuffed tortellini gets a royal treatment in tonight's speedy dinner! This slightly untraditional, lip-smacking sausage rosé sauce uses sun-dried tomato pesto to pack a flavourful punch.
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) • Sweet bell pepper • Spinach • Sundried tomato pesto (sundried tomato, water, soy oil, canola and extra virgin olive oil, tomatoes, garlic, parmesan cheese (milk, bacterial culture, salt, lipase, calcium chloride, microbial enzyme, powdered cellulose), basil leaves, salt, sugar, herbs, spices, vinegar, citric acid, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate) (milk) • 35% Cream (cream, milk, dextrose, cellulose gel, carrageenan, mono and diglycerides, cellulose gum, polysorbate 80, sodium citrate, disodium phosphate) (milk) • Shallot • 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) • Vegetable broth concentrate (sugars (vegetable juice concentrates [tomato, mushroom, onion, carrot, celery], sugar, maltodextrin), salt, yeast extract, natural flavor) • Garlic.
The quantities provided above are averages only.
Produced in a facility that processes milk, sesame, eggs, fish, shellfish, crustaceans, mustard, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybean and sulphites.
Ingredients
350 g
Cheese Tortellini
(Contains: Egg, Milk, Wheat)
2 unit(s)
Garlic, cloves
56 mL
Cream
(Contains: Milk)
113 g
Baby Spinach
¼ cup
Parmesan Cheese, shredded
(Contains: Milk)
1 unit(s)
Shallot
1 unit(s)
Sweet Bell Pepper
¼ cup
Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto
(Contains: Milk May contain: Tree nuts, Soy, Sulphites)
3 unit(s)
Cream Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
1 unit(s)
Vegetable Broth Concentrate
(May contain: Milk, Sesame, Gluten, Egg, Fish, Mustard, Crustaceans, Soy, Tree nuts, Wheat, Sulphites)
250 g
Mild Italian Sausage, uncased
Not included in your delivery
1 tbsp
Butter*
(Contains: Milk)
¼ tsp
Salt*
0.13 tsp
Pepper*
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
- Before starting, wash and dry all produce.
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high.
- To the boiling water, add tortellini. Cook for 2-4 min, stirring occasionally, until tender but still firm to the bite. Reserve 1/4 cup (1/2 cup) pasta water. Strain tortellini, then return to the pot, off heat.
- Meanwhile, peel, then finely chop shallot.
- Peel, then mince or grate garlic.
- Core, then cut pepper into 1/2-inch pieces.
- Roughly chop spinach.
- Heat a large non-stick pan over medium-high.
- When hot, add 1 tbsp (2 tbsp) butter, then sausage, shallots and peppers. Cook for 4-6 min, breaking up sausage and stirring often until veggies have softened, and sausage is cooked through.**
- Add garlic. Cook for 1-2 min, stirring often, until fragrant.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- To the pan with sausage and veggies, add cream cheese, cream, broth concentrate and reserved pasta water. Cook for 1-2 min, stirring occasionally, until sauce reduces slightly.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Pour cream sauce over tortellini in the pot, then add spinach and sun-dried tomato pesto.
- Return the pot to medium and cook for 2-3 min, stirring often, until spinach wilts and sauce coats tortellini.
- Season with salt and pepper, if you like.
- Divide creamy cheese tortellini between bowls.
- Sprinkle Parmesan over top.
If you've opted to add sausage, heat a large non-stick pan over medium-high. When hot, add sausage, along with shallots and peppers to the pan Season with salt and pepper. Cook for 4-6 min, breaking up sausage and stirring often until veggies have softened, and sausage is cooked through.** Follow the rest of the recipe as written.
