Linguine with Sausage and An Easy Egg Sauce

5/115 DONE!

Hold onto your hats people... this pasta dish is SUPER easy and SUPER delicious. It's perfect for a mid-week meal!

We had this ready and on the table within 30 minutes. Paired with a nice, leafy green salad, and maybe a glass of wine, and you are SET!

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Feel free to use any sausage of your liking. We chose a nice spicy chorizo.

Side note... splurging for the nice, expensive noodles actually make a difference. I wanted to get fresh ones, but since they were nowhere to be found on short notice I upped my budget and bought the $5 noodles, without regret! They cooked SO well.

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I swear there is more sausage hiding under that delicious mound of cheese...

Enjoy!

*Original recipe from Sarah Copeland's The Newlywed Cookbook.

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Ingredients

- 1lb/455g high-quality sweet or spicy Italian sausage

- 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil

- Sea salt

- Freshly ground black pepper

- 1lb/455 g linguine pasta, fresh or dried

- 4 large organic egg yolks

- 1/2 cup/120 ml whole milk or half and half cream

- 3/4 cup/85g freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese

- Grated zest of 1 lemon

- Handful of fresh chives

Directions

- Cut or slice the skins of the sausage, and peel back the skins

- Cut the sausage into pieces (at your desired size)

- Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan over medium high heat and fry the sausages until golden brown all over, about 5 minutes

- Meanwhile, cook the linguine in boiling salted water until it is just al dente (usually 3-5 minutes for fresh, and 10-12 minutes for dried)

- Whisk together the egg yolks, milk/cream, half the grated cheese, pepper and the lemon zest

- Drain the pasta and reserve about 1/2 cup cooking liquid

- Add the pasta back to the pot along with the egg mixture

- Add the hot sausage, toss it all together, and let the heat from the pot and the linguine cook and thicken the egg mixture to a silky sauce.

- Add 1/4 to 1/2 cup of the reserved pasta water to loosen (We used the whole 1/2 cup)

-Toss (or top) with the remaining cheese and chives and serve fresh from the stove in shallow bowls or plates

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