Italian Sausage with a KICK!

  4.5 – 22 reviews  • Italian

One of my family’s favorite dishes is a beautiful spaghetti dish topped with a white wine and garlic Alfredo sauce. I have no doubt that it will impress and win you over as well. Add to pasta and top with freshly grated Parmesan cheese.

Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Total Time: 1 hr
Servings: 4
Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

  1. 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
  2. 5 (3.5 ounce) links hot Italian sausage, cut into bite-size pieces
  3. 1 white onion, chopped
  4. 1 (4.5 ounce) can sliced mushrooms, drained
  5. 3 cloves garlic, chopped
  6. 2 tablespoons dried oregano
  7. salt and ground black pepper to taste
  8. ¼ cup white wine
  9. ½ cup heavy whipping cream
  10. 3 tablespoons freshly shredded Parmesan cheese
  11. 2 tablespoons butter

Instructions

  1. Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir sausage in the hot oil until browned, about 10 minutes. Stir onion, mushrooms, garlic, and oregano into sausage, season with salt and black pepper, and cook until onions are slightly browned, about 15 minutes.
  2. Pour wine into skillet, bring to a boil, and reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer until liquid has nearly evaporated, about 10 minutes. Pour cream into skillet and add Parmesan cheese and butter. Cook at a simmer, stirring often, until sauce is slightly thickened, 10 to 15 minutes. Adjust salt and black pepper to taste.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 494 kcal
Carbohydrate 9 g
Cholesterol 120 mg
Dietary Fiber 2 g
Protein 19 g
Saturated Fat 19 g
Sodium 974 mg
Sugars 2 g
Fat 42 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Carla Bradley
We loved this! I doubled the whipping cream and cheese, and substituted the wine with apple cider vinegar. It was quickly eaten up!
Bruce Martin
My favorite dish these days; I make it for my wife when she comes home from overnight duty at the hospital. I pretty much follow the recipe. Sometimes I use red wine if I don’t have white, still tastes good. I use a little less cheese and butter for health sake. Great recipe. Love it.
Carolyn Gallagher
SO DELICIOUS! Everyone loved this so much. We will definitely be making this again! The next day I added fresh diced tomatoes to the leftovers – yummy! Will probably add more mushrooms next time too. Per other reviewers, we doubled the sauce.
Kathryn Decker
This is a new go to recipe! I did double the sauce knowing my family would want it saucier. Otherwise, no changes. It was amazing. Great flavor and super quick to make.
Edward Perry
We added a little more wine and a little more cream. We also decased the sausage and added shrimp too! I was worried it wouldn’t be enough sauce but this was more than adequate for one whole box of pasta. This was so delicious!
Amanda Richards
Fantastic dish. I doubled the sauce, used Italian seasoning instead of “pure”
Kathy Coffey
I love the hidden kick of heat from the sausage. I did double the garlic, cream, wine and parm. Next time I will hold off on adding the parm till I’m ready to serve, it gooped up on me while the cream was heating up. I also used fresh mushrooms instead of canned. The reason for the 4 was that even though the sauce had flavor and yes, I did taste the wine (yum), the pasta seemed bland even though I mixed it all together at the end. I added some onion powder and garlic salt and it was perfect!
Brenda Christensen MD
Like many others, I doubled the sauce ingredients, which actually made what is the perfect amount of sauce for the extra noodles and sausage I had. I doubled the mushrooms and used greasy, as personal preference. I also removed the casings from the sausage before cooking so it was ground for the sauce instead of bite sized pieces. This was a good meal with lots of leftovers for the two of us. My husband certainly liked it a lot, as the leftovers are almost gone in under a week!
Kristin Stone
I chose to double up on the wine and cream. I also used light cream as a personal preference. Came out great. Sub the hot sausage for polska kielbasa too (personal pref). Great recipe. Thanks for sharing.
Valerie Jones
I made it with the suggested changes such as double the cream and Parmesan and I never use canned mushrooms so 10 oz of fresh. The only suggestion I can make is drain a bit of the oil from the sausage. It seemed a little too greasy. I had mild sausage so I added a bit of red pepper for a kick.
Melissa Torres
Very good.
Jennifer Fernandez
Big Hot with the family. made this as the first meal in our house and invited my in-laws to join us. I doubled the recipe but also didn’t have any measuring utensils since those were not unpacked yet but it still came out fabulous. Definitely on my girls make again list!
Kathy Miller
Yummm. I tripled the sauce since I used about 10 ounces of fresh mushrooms (a mix of button and baby portabellas). I also added a small amount of zucchini and diced green pepper. I winged it with the oregano since people said it was overpowering — I just did what I thought would taste good to me. Served over pasta.
Cathy Ryan
Too much oregano for my taste. I think it should be 2 teaspoons.
Chris Montgomery
I think this fell pretty flat. And probably too much oregano. Not bad, not great.
Lisa Harmon
The first time I made this with fresh mushrooms and bottled sauce, and extra wine. Very good. Second try was out of sausages so used frozen meatballs and threw in swiss chard to up the veggies. some oregano and some basil. This recipe is great and is flexible enough to tweek for what you have.
Cynthia Dunlap
We really liked this a lot! Used fresh mushrooms and doubled the sauce, mixed in bowtie pasta. Would make this again for sure. Thank You for sharing this great recipe!
Ms. Nancy Zamora
We all liked it. Much lighter than we expected. I like my pasta a lot saucier so next time may double sauce ingredients. Couldn’t taste the wine at all, in fact my husband was shocked when I told him there was wine in it. I also used fresh mushrooms as I do not like canned. I also used 1 T Oregano and 1 T dried basil. (instead of 2T Oregano) Nice way to use sausage. I think I would definitely love it with more sauce.
Anthony Kelly DDS
Great recipe at its base. Double the sauce and simmer in the pasta = perfect!
Eric Lane
Delicious and creamy recipe. I used fresh mushrooms and made double the sauce. Definitely will be making again!
Robert Dixon
I served this over spaghetti squash…HUGE HIT! I used more wine, cream, and Parmesan because we like saucy dishes. No leftovers!

 

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