Sausage Kale Pasta with Lemon Cream Sauce

Creamy Sausage Pasta—Need We Say More?

Weeknights and pasta go together like peanut butter and jelly or gin and tonic—they’re a match made in heaven for so many reasons. Firstly, everyone likes pasta. It’s a blessedly easy sell to even the harshest dinnertime critic. Pasta keeps forever, so we’ve always, always got at least a box or two (or 10) in the cupboard. And last, but not least, it’s a pretty good blank slate! You can pretty much throw whatever is in your fridge or cupboard at a bowl of pasta and end up with something palatable—especially if you top it with lots of Parmesan cheese. This Italian sausage pasta recipe with lemon cream sauce and a bit of kale for good measure, is the kind of thing most of us can pull together in even a really last-minute situation. Fast, flavorful, and hearty, you know it’s going to be a big hit from the moment you start cooking. And that’s a weeknight feeling we’d all like to have a little more often than we do!

Orecchiette Pasta with Sausage and Kale—The Ingredients are (Mostly) In the Name

This pasta recipe is so simple that just by reading the title you’ll have a sense for what you’ll need to make it. You might have a lot of the ingredients—or, if you’re really lucky, all—around the house already, but if you don’t, they’re super easy to get your hands on. But, BTW, easy and fast doesn’t mean this recipe lacks in deliciousness. With plenty of garlic and that bright lemon cream sauce, it’s positively bursting with goodness and is definitely worthy of a date night in or even dinner party. Here’s everything you’ll need to make it:

• Orecchiette (or any pasta you love! But we love these little pasta “ears” because they really hold onto the sauce nicely.)

• Mild Italian sausage

• Fresh garlic

• Heavy cream

• Parmesan cheese

• Lemon

• Kale

How to Make This Easy, Yummy Sausage Pasta With Kale

This simple sausage cream sauce comes together quickly and a spritz of lemon and good handful of kale keep it from being overly rich or cloying. It’s basically the ultimate quick dinner! Here’s how to make it:

1. Cook the pasta in salted water and set it aside while you make the sauce.

2. Sauté the sausage until it’s cooked through.

3. Add the garlic and sauté it with the sausage just for another minute or so. Set the sausage aside.

4. Pour the heavy cream and Parmesan cheese into the pan and stir it over medium heat until it has thickened a bit.

5. Add salt, pepper, kale and lemon juice and stir just until the kale has wilted.

6. Stir in the sausage, garlic and pasta, and serve!

More Easy Sausage Pasta Recipes to Try

• Baked Ziti

• Baked Gnocchi

• Homemade Spaghetti Sauce

• Baked Penne Alla Vodka

Tools You’ll Need

• Large stock pot

• Nonstick skillet or saucepan

• Sharp knife

• Colander

Creamy, Comforting Weeknight Ease

Try this dreamy kale-and-sausage pasta recipe, and let us know how you like it, OK? Share a photo and tag us on Instagram using @themodernproper and #themodernproper so that we can see your stuff! Happy eating!