Spring – Pasta Primavera with Sausage – Piemonte Sausage – Urbana, Illinois

Ingredients

• Kosher salt
• Bernie’s Classic sweet sausage (taken out of casings and crumbled up or sliced.)
• 12 ounces fusilli or other corkscrew pasta
• 1/2 pound sugar snap peas, halved lengthwise, or broccoli florets (or a combination)
• 2 carrots, shredded
• 1 yellow bell pepper, cut into thin strips
• 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling
• 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
• 1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved
• 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
• 4 ounces goat cheese, crumbled
• 1/2 cup roughly chopped fresh mint or parsley (optional)