Sausages with pasta are a rather pleasant combination when you need to have a quick snack or put on the table, and there is a minimum of time and food in the refrigerator. This easy-to-prepare dish is very popular and takes leading positions in satiety and calorie content.
Why macaroni and sausages?
The most satisfying dish is meat with a side dish. Which side dish is cooked the fastest? Of course, pasta! In addition, there is such a variety of them that there will be pasta even for the most discerning gourmet. As for meat, sausages have successfully replaced it in the "quick" version. Five minutes - and a complete second course is ready. No wonder macaroni and sausages are called “student's” lunch. Children also love him, especially schoolchildren who are busy with studies, who need to have a very quick and satisfying lunch. More than one generation of Russians considers macaroni and sausages to be their favorite dish, therefore they say about it: "The taste, familiar from childhood." So sausages with pasta can be safely considered the first Soviet "fast food". It should be noted that this wonderful combination can often be used in cooking.
How to cook
And yet, pasta with ordinary sausage is probably too commonplace. After all, sometimes you want variety. It turns out that there are many different ways to prepare this simple dish in such a way that it acquires not only a new taste, but also an unusual appearance, and this will especially delight children.
For example, you can cook "piglets" from sausages. The edges of the sausages are cut several times with a knife, and then the sausages are boiled in water or cooked in the microwave. As a result, funny sausages with curls are obtained, and they are more fun. You can cut the sausages crosswise into three pieces and pierce each piece with a few spaghetti sticks. After boiling, you get very funny sausages, from which pasta sticks out, children especially like this dish.
For greater satiety, you can make a casserole from pasta and sausages, just add an egg. Boiled pasta is placed in a greased form, sausages cut into slices are placed on top, everything is poured with an egg and baked in the oven for twenty minutes at one hundred and eighty degrees. It's great if you can find some more grated cheese to sprinkle on the casserole.
In addition, sausages with pasta can be varied and decorated with a wide variety of sauces, olive oil, grated cheese of any kind, tomatoes and capers, herbs and spices. Also sausages can be not only boiled, but also fried. Feel free to experiment, and even such a simple dish as macaroni and sausages will turn into an exquisite gourmet delicacy.
