Tortellini casserole

Ingredients for 5 servings:

• 250 g tortellini (ham tortellini), dried
• salt water
• 1 jar sausages (poultry sausages, e.g. turkey wieners)
• 1 m.-sized onion(s)
• 1 bottle of sauce (tomato barbecue sauce of your choice, e.g. chili)
• 2 can/n mushrooms, sliced
• 100 g cheese (Edam 40% fat), diced
• salt and pepper
• chili powder
• Paprika powder
• 1 tbsp oil

Instructions

Working time approx. 10 minutes; Total time approx. 10 minutes

low-calorie – low-fat

Cook the tortellini in salted water according to the package instructions. While the tortellini are cooking, slice the sausages, dice the onions, and drain the mushrooms. Brown everything in a pan with 1 tablespoon of oil. Drain the tortellini and transfer to a large bowl. Add the mushroom and sausage mixture, as well as the cheese and barbecue sauce. Mix everything together and season with the seasonings again. Transfer to a casserole dish and bake in the oven at 180-200°C for about 15 minutes. If you can believe the various calorie tables you can find online, 100 grams of this casserole has only about 100 kcal – a generous estimate. It’s also delicious without cream and with a little cheese. This recipe is also a good way to use up leftover pasta from the day before. It can, of course, also be made with sausage and other cheeses, cream, etc. – but then the “low-calorie” claim is lost. The ingredients (instead of mushrooms) can be varied as desired, e.g., with bell peppers, zucchini, snow peas, tomatoes—the variety is endless. Just make sure you use “light” ingredients if you want to keep the recipe low in calories. By the way, 300g of the casserole fits on my plate—that’s quite a lot, and I’m always completely stuffed afterward.