Prep & Bake Pearl Pasta with Pork Sausage

Includes recyclable aluminum trays


Allergens: Milk, Wheat

Total: 45 min • Prep: 5 min

Servings:
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

  • Salt

    1 teaspoon (tsp)

  • Black Pepper

    1 teaspoon (tsp)

Cooking steps
1
  • Adjust rack to middle position and preheat oven to 450 degrees. Wash and dry produce.

  • Trim and halve zucchini lengthwise; slice crosswise into ¼-inch-thick half moons.

  • 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).

2
  • Add zucchini, couscous, crushed tomatoesItalian 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.)

  • 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).

3
  • Carefully remove foil from pearl pasta sausage bake (watch out for steam!); stir until cream cheese is smooth and spinach is combined.

  • 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.

4
  • Divide pearl pasta sausage bake between shallow bowls. Serve.