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Gramigna alla Salsiccia (Sausage)
This gramigna pasta recipe from Bologna is one of the simplest sausage pasta recipes to make! It only has 3 main ingredients but it’s really tasty, hearty and filling! A great favourite with children here in Italy.
Ingredients
- 400 g gramigna (14 oz) dried will take longer to cook than fresh
- 450 g pork sausages (16oz) Italian
- 1 medium sized onion peeled and finely diced
- 1 glass white wine
- 560 g tomato passata or fresh tomatoes (20oz) peeled and chopped
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 50 g parmesan (2oz)
- salt to cook the pasta and to taste
- black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Remove the skin from the sausage and chop into chunks.
- Fry the onion in olive oil until it starts to soften
- Add the sausage meat and continue cooking until it starts to brown.
- Add the white wine and cook for a further few minutes.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Put water on to boil for the pasta. Add salt once it starts to boil.
- Add the passata or chopped tomatoes and simmer the sauce for 20-25 minutes ( If it gets too dry you can pour in a little water or more wine)
- Cook the pasta al dente according to the instructions on the packet.
- When the pasta is cooked and strained add it to the sauce and cook everything together for a further minute, stirring the sauce into the pasta.
- Serve with grated parmesan.
Notes
You can season the ready dish further if required with parsley or peperoncino flakes. ( We added some peperoncino!)
Another way to spice it up is to add a little Nduja when you are cooking the sausage.
If you don’t have gramigna this dish is still delicious with other short pasta such as fusilli or even spaghetti.
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avleen says
Hi! I love how informative and great your articles are. Thanks a lot.!
Caz says
I have just returned from a short trip to Bologna where we had this dish. I can truly say it the best pasta meal I have ever tasted! I searched for the recipe to make it myself at home and was thrilled to find your post. Grazie mille!!
henry says
while we didn’t have small pasta handy, we made this with PrimoGrano Traghetti and it was simply delicious. we choose this as one of our all time favorites from your recipes. bless you for sharing.
Jacqui says
I’m thrilled you liked this recipe so much Henry! I love it too because it’s simple but very tasty! Unfortunately gramigna pasta isn’t so easy to find outside of Italy but this recipe is great with long pasta like traghetti too!
Tayler Ross says
I love that this requires only 3 main ingredients! This is a meal that my family is sure to love!
Jacqui says
It’s amazing how delicious this recipe is even with only 3 ingredients Tayler! I’m sure your family will devour it!
Eden | Sweet Tea and Thyme says
This looks so delicious, I’ve got to make it! Luckily, I’ve found that pasta type at my local mom and pop Italian grocer. To the store I go!
Jacqui says
This is a great recipe Eden. I’m sure you’re going to love it! Perfect that you can find gramigna to make it with!
Lisa | Garlic & Zest says
I love the look of the gramigna — what a fun pasta shape — and the sauce sounds like the ideal, simple, straightforward topping! Sometimes that’s the best!
kim says
This looks so tasty and I know my family will love this dish! Definitely need to try!
Julia says
Simple pasta recipes taste the best and if one of the ingredients is a sausage you can’t go wrong there at all :)!
Salvatore Scotti says
Hi Melanie, is the version with the addition of milk & tomato paste instead of fresh tomatoes the original receipt? Thanks a lot. Salvatore
eric b says
Like with any recipe: there are variations. I just watched 2 videos of this recipe and they were NOT the same. But of course: its someones nonnas recipe; so its hard to argue its “original” or not. No doubt your nonna will have your original recipe.
I am making mine with cream and white wine, anis seeds and chili in it, like I saw in yet another video.
Cheers
Eric
Melanie F says
Hi! Where can I find gramigna pasta? I looked on amazon.com and they only have the farro version. Where did you buy yours? I live in the NY/NJ area and it is impossible to find anywhere!
Thanks!
admin says
Hi Melanie, thank for you comment. I of course buy gramigna here in Italy. I have also bought them online in UK from Amazon.co.uk, but you are right they only have a farro version on Amazon.com. What you can use instead are gramigna coquillettes from granoro which are very similar and can be bought in US. I will try to find another source for you after I return from my holiday here in Sicily. All the best! Jacqui.
http://piccolosgastronomia.com/pasta/b-granoro-b/granoro-elbows-gramigna-coquillettes-pasta-49-1lb