Cooking in the student dorm: Tomato and sausages pasta

Cooking in the student dorm: Tomato and sausages pasta 

Today, in the student dorm, my roommate and I are cooking same pasta with the following ingredients:

• Gnocchi pasta

• Tomato sauce

• A mix of frozen vegetables with mushrooms

• Plant based sausages

• The zest of a half a lemon

• A quarter of a red bell pepper

• Vegetable oil

• Seasonings such as salt, mediteraneean spices, nutmeg

Making the vegetable and sausages tomato sauce

We start by doing the sauce of the pasta, so the first step we do is to cut the onion, the red bell pepper and the plant based sausages, while, in the mean time, the vegetable oil is getting heat up in a non stick pan in which we add and sote all of the cut ingredients, plus the frozen mix of vegetables. In the pan, everything is cooked together for about 10 minutes or until the veggie have soften and begin to smell delicious.

After that, the next step is to pour the tomato sauce, we use all of it, 500 grams, and mix to combine. At this point we also season the sauce with salt, curry, mediteraneen spices, nutmeg and the zest of half a lemon. We let the tomato vegetable and sausages sauce to boil for another 10 minutes or so.

Boiling the gnocchi pasta

On the other hand, we put water in a large pot, bring it to a boil and add the gnocchi pasta, letting it to be cooked until the gnocchi bits get soften.

Putting the dish together: yap, students are good at spontaneous cooking! 

The last move is to strain the pasta and pour over all of the tomato sauce, gathering it alongside with the gnocchi. And the dish, our lunch, is finally served. The pasta dish ends up to be pretty good although we have improvised the recipe according to the ingredients and kind of eye bolling everything, so, who said that students are not good chefs?

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