Recipes

Native Sausage Ragu with Rigatoni

SERVES
6
COOK TIME
25 mins
PREP TIME
15 mins
DIFFICULTY
Easy
Ingredients
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 large brown onion
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 1 large carrot, peeled and diced
  • 2 sticks celery, diced
  • 2 tablespoons native coastal rosemary, chopped
  • 500 g sausage meat (eg. kangaroo/wild boar/crocodile/venison/camel/goat), skins removed
  • 700 ml passata
  • 1/2 cup basil leaves, roughly chopped
  • salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper
To Serve
  • 500g dried rigatoni
  • ½ cup (40g) Parmesan, grated
Method
  1. Heat olive oil in large non-stick sauté pan, over low heat. Add onion, garlic, carrot, celery and native rosemary stirring to combine. Cover and cook for 10 minutes or until onion is soft.
  2. Increase heat to medium-high, add sausage meat and cook for 5 minutes or until browned and cooked through
  3. Add passata and bring to a simmer. Cook for 10 minutes or until sauce thickens slightly. Season with salt and pepper.
  4. Meanwhile, cook rigatoni following pack instructions. Drain.
  5. To serve, add cooked pasta to sausage ragu, stirring gently to combine and to finish stir chopped basil through. Serve with parmesan.