Cheese noodles with meat sausage

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 300 g spiral noodles
• Salt
• 1 onion(s)
• 2 cloves garlic
• 3 bell peppers, colored
• 200 g meat sausage (ham or poultry sausage)
• some rapeseed oil or sunflower oil or clarified butter for sautéing
• 1 tsp Tomato paste, approx., optional
• 150 ml vegetable stock
• 150 g cream
• 100 ml tomatoes, pureed, optional
• 100 g Emmental cheese
• pepper
• Paprika powder
• 80 g fried onions, optional

Instructions

Working time approx. 15 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 15 minutes; Total time approx. 30 minutes

Baked

Cook the pasta in boiling salted water until al dente. Peel the onion and garlic cloves. Dice the onion and chop the garlic cloves. Halve, trim, rinse, and dice the bell peppers. Peel the skin from the sausage, then halve the sausage lengthwise and slice or dice it. Heat oil or clarified butter in a pan and sauté the diced onion, chopped garlic, and diced bell peppers. Stir in the tomato paste, if desired, and sauté briefly. Then deglaze with the vegetable stock and cream and, if desired, the passata. Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer for 2 to 5 minutes. Drain the pasta and add it to the sauce in the pan along with the sausage and half of the grated cheese. Mix well. Season with salt, pepper, and paprika. Then place in a greased baking dish, sprinkle with the remaining cheese, and bake in a preheated oven at 200°C (top/bottom heat) or 175°C (fan oven) for about 10 minutes. Serve sprinkled with fried onions, if desired. Serve with ketchup if you’re not using tomato paste or passata. Instead of bell peppers, you can also use peas and carrots, or broccoli and tomatoes. Cooking times vary.