Penne With Ragù Of Roasted Tomato And Sausage

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Ingredients: * ~1.5-2 lbs tomatoes * 1 red bell pepper * 7 cloves garlic * 1 lb hot italian sausage * 3 baby leeks * handful of hot peppers(I used somewhere around ~7) * 1/2 cup white wine * 1 Tbsp dried oregano * 2 bay leaves * salt * pepper * handful fresh parsely * handful fresh basil * 1 lb penne(or some other medium-sized pasta)

Method:
Roasted tomatoes, pepper, and garlic
Slit a shallow x on the bottom of the tomatoes. Lightly rub them, the red pepper, and garlic cloves (still in their paper) with a bit of olive oil. Throw these in a pan and roast in a 425 F oven for 45 minutes to an hour. If the skin does not seem to char or blacken much, fire up the broiler for 10 minutes. Once time is up, remove from the oven, cover with a bit of foil/plastic wrap for 10 minutes (to steam them), and then you should not have much trouble peeling off the skins of the tomatoes and pepper (discard the skins as well as the ribs/seeds from the pepper). Squeezing the garlic out of the paper should also be pretty simple.
Saute the leek and peppers, deglaze with wine and pureed roasted vegetables
While the tomatoes, etc are steaming/cooling down, remove the sausages from their casings and coarsely chop/crumble them into bite-sized pieces. Brown these in a pan until cooked through, probably for around 7-10 minutes. Remove from the pan and set aside to drain.
Dice up the leeks and hotter peppers somewhat coarsely. Saute these for about 5 minutes in the remaining fat from the sausages. Then, deglaze the pan with white wine, allowing it to reduce by roughly half.
Simmer the sausage and herbs in the thickened sauce
In a food processor/blender, briefly blitz the roasted vegetables to a smoother consistency. Add these to the pan with the leeks and peppers. Raise this to an active simmer and return the cooked sausage to the pan. Add the oregano and Bay leaves. Allow this to simmer for roughly 20-30 minutes or until the sauce takes on a consistency you are happy with.
Penne with Ragu of Roasted Tomato and Sausage
During the last 2 minutes, adjust the seasoning to your liking and add the chopped parsely and basil. Do not forget to cook your pasta during all of this. Then, simply toss it all together, pile it on your plate, and dig in.
Penne with Ragu of Roasted Tomato and Sausage
Enjoy!
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