Creamy Sausage Alfredo Casserole
Italian sausage (or regular breakfast sausage) is combined with a garlicky homemade alfredo sauce, tossed with penne pasta and mozzarella cheese, then baked until bubbly and golden brown. The creamy alfredo sauce tucks away into the tubes of the pasta, oozing out with every perfect bite.
Ingredients
Instructions
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Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9x13 casserole dish with nonstick sprayIn a large skillet, add two tablespoons of olive oil and saute onions for about two minutes or until translucent then add in half the garlic. Cook for another minute then add in the sausage to crumbles and cook through. Set sausage and onions aside in a bowl, strain out most of the grease (leaving about 1 tbsp for flavor). -
Step 2
In the same pan over medium low, melt the butter, then add in the remaining garlic and saute about 1 minute. Pour in the cream slowly whisking to combine with the butter. Allow the cream to simmer about 5 minutes.Start a pot of salted water to boil for pasta while the alfredo simmers. Cook the pasta to al dente according to the package instructions and reserve 1/2 cup of pasta water.To the cream, add in the parmesan, whisking until it incorporates. Taste and adjust salt, pepper and red pepper flakes to your preference.Strain and return pasta to the pot, pour in the alfredo sauce, sausage and onions and 1 cup of mozzarella cheese. Mix it all together until it's combined, adding a few splashes of pasta water if needed to loosen.Pour pasta into the prepared casserole dish, top with remaining cheese and bake for 30 minutes or until it's bubbly and slightly golden brown.
Note
I found this delicious recipe at Bad Batch Baking and I try to make new recipes pretty much by the original recipe but in this case I did change the Italian sausage to pork breakfast sausage and I didn't have quite enough half and half so I finished it off with whole milk. That being said the entire family LOVED this dish, I really don't cook with pork enough around here, lol. The only addition I will make next time is to add half a block of cream cheese into the alfredo sauce, there is just something about the flavor of sausage and cream cheese together that I love!
