Rotini w/ peppers, mushrooms, spinach, pecan & chicken sausage

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 6
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 368.5
  • Total Fat: 11.1 g
  • Cholesterol: 58.7 mg
  • Sodium: 603.8 mg
  • Total Carbs: 47.6 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 3.6 g
  • Protein: 22.7 g

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Introduction

For a vegetarian variety, just remove the sausages from this recipe and save on fat too. For a vegetarian variety, just remove the sausages from this recipe and save on fat too.
Number of Servings: 6

Ingredients

    8oz. Rotini pasta
    3/4 tablespoon olive oil (1/2, 1/4)
    16 oz. lean chicken Italian sausages
    1 bag frozen pepper stir-fry veggies
    1 cup sliced mushrooms
    1.4 teaspoons cayenne pepper
    1/2 cup frozen spinach (thawed)
    1/16 cup ground pecans

Directions

Cook pasta according to package instructions.

Heat 1/2 tbsp olive oil in large skillet. Cook sausages, peppers, and mushrooms, and cayenne pepper in skillet over medium heat, cook until sausages are cooked through and peppers are soft. Add spinach, cook until heated through.

In a food processor, grind 1/16 cup pecans until in powdery form.

Stir 1/4 tablespoon olive oil in with pasta. separate on 6 plates, divide skillet ingredients evenly on top of pasta. Sprinkle with ground pecans. Serves 6.

Number of Servings: 6

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user JLOEPER.