A Great Way to Use Cheese Tortellini!
A go-to main ingredient for a quick and easy dinner at my house is so frequently tortellini. I love love love tortellini! I mean cheese stuffed in pasta, how could you go wrong with that? I’ve been eating it as long as I can remember, my mom often served it growing up because like I just mentioned, it makes for an easy meal and she was a full-time working single mother of six. We usually just had it with some sort of tomato sauce and cream mixture but I was perfectly fine with that as a kid. Now I add in allll the garlic, tomatoes, basil…you know, the good stuff :). Someday I’d like to try making tortellini from scratch, but this is real life and who has time for such things? One day I’ll make the time but until then I’m really just pretty content with the tortellini in the refrigerator section at the grocery store.
Ingredients for This Recipe
Olive oil Garlic Turkey sausage (pork sausage will work too) Marinara sauce 1 Tbsp olive oil Canned tomatoes Low sodium chicken broth Refrigerated 3 cheese tortellini spinach Fresh parsley and fresh basil
How to Make This Easy Tortellini Recipe
Saute sausage and garlic in a skillet in olive oil until sausage is cooked through. Add in marinara sauce, tomatoes, chicken broth and water and bring to a light boil. Add in tortellini, toss and press tortellini down into sauce, reduce heat, cover and simmer until tortellini is cooked through. Stir in spinach and parsley, season with pepper to taste. Let spinach wilt. Stir in basil and serve warm.
A 25 Minute Dinner!
It uses both the store-bought tortellini and a store-bought marinara sauce so it comes together so quickly (you can have it ready in 25 minutes or less), and it’s made more flavorful and filling with the sausage. Then the basil, parsley and spinach offer it that wonderful fresh flavor. This is a recipe you’ll want to make again and again and it’s something the whole family will likely agree on! This is definitely my kind of dinner!
More Easy Dinner Recipes to Try!
One Pan Creamy Gnocchi with Sausage and Kale Creamy Spinach Tomato Tortellini Instant Pot Spaghetti Pasta Primavera Pasta e Fagioli Soup
