Prep & Bake Pearl Pasta with Pork Sausage
Includes recyclable aluminum trays
Allergens: Milk, Wheat
Total: 45 min • Prep: 5 min

Ingredients
Zucchini
1 unit
Spinach
5 ounce
Oven-Ready Tray
2 units
Crushed Tomatoes
1 unit
Cream Cheese
4 tablespoon
Chicken Stock Concentrate
1 unit
Parmesan Cheese
3 tablespoon
Tuscan Heat Spice
½ tablespoon
Italian Pork Sausage
9 ounce
Israeli Couscous
¾ cup
Italian Herb Paste
1 tablespoon
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Salt
1 teaspoon (tsp)
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Black Pepper
1 teaspoon (tsp)
Cooking steps

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Adjust rack to middle position and preheat oven to 450 degrees. Wash and dry produce.
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Trim and halve zucchini lengthwise; slice crosswise into ¼-inch-thick half moons.
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Remove sausage* from casing if necessary; discard casing. Place sausage in oven-ready tray; using two forks (or your hands!), break up sausage into bite-size pieces (for 4 servings, divide sausage between two trays).

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Add zucchini, couscous, crushed tomatoes, Italian herb paste, stock concentrate, ¼ cup water (½ cup for 4 servings), cream cheese, half the Tuscan Heat Spice (all for 4), salt, and pepper; stir to combine (it's OK if lumps of cream cheese remain). (For 4, divide everything between two trays.)
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Top with spinach. (TIP: Evenly spread out spinach and press down, making sure no leaves hang over the edges of your tray!) Cover oven-ready tray tightly with foil; bake on middle rack (be sure your oven has preheated!) for 25 minutes (for 4, bake two trays side by side on middle rack).

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Carefully remove foil from pearl pasta sausage bake (watch out for steam!); stir until cream cheese is smooth and spinach is combined.
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Top pearl pasta sausage bake with Parmesan, return to middle rack, and bake, uncovered, until sausage is fully cooked and cheese melts, 10-12 minutes more.

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Divide pearl pasta sausage bake between shallow bowls. Serve.