Dracula's Revenge (Baked Penne with Sausage and Garlic)

Name: Dracula's Revenge (Baked Penne with Sausage and Garlic)
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 0 teaspoons black pepper; 2 liters hot cooked penne (about 1 pound uncooked tube-shaped pasta) or rigatoni; 79 milliliters all-purpose flour; 2 whole garlic heads; 454 grams sweet turkey Italian sausage; 1 liters 1% low-fat milk; 113 grams cup grated fresh Parmesan cheese; 1 teaspoons salt; 2 Tbsps butter or stick margarine; 71 grams 2/3 cup (about shredded Gruyère or Swiss cheese; 1 teaspoon chopped fresh or 1/4 teaspoon dried rosemary; 1 teaspoon chopped fresh or 1/4 teaspoon dried sage

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Dracula's Revenge (Baked Penne with Sausage and Garlic) a try. This recipe covers 16% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 359 calories, 22g of protein, and 15g of fat. This recipe serves 10. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes. If you have stick margarine, milk, swiss cheese, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the stick margarine you could follow this main course with the Ooey-Gooey Peanut Butter-Chocolate Brownies as a dessert.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 35

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Oven

Remove white papery skin from garlic heads (do not peel or separate the cloves). Wrap each head separately in foil.

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Clove

Garlic

Wrap

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Aluminum Foil

Bake at 350 for 1 hour; cool 10 minutes. Separate cloves; squeeze to extract garlic pulp. Discard skins. Set garlic aside.

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Extract

Clove

Garlic

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Oven

Increase oven temperature to 40

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Oven

Remove casings from sausage. Cook sausage in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat until browned, stirring to crumble.

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Sausage

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Frying Pan

Remove from pan with a slotted spoon.

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Slotted Spoon

Frying Pan

Place sausage in a large bowl; stir in sage and rosemary.

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Rosemary

Sausage

Sage

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Bowl

Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

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Measuring Cup

Sauce Pan

Knife

Add the flour to melted butter, stirring with a whisk. Gradually add the milk; cook until slightly thick, stirring constantly with a whisk (about 10 minutes). Stir in roasted garlic, cheeses, salt, and pepper.

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Roasted Garlic

Butter

Pepper

All Purpose Flour

Milk

Salt

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Whisk

Remove mixture from heat.

Add 5 1/2 cups cheese sauce and cooked pasta to sausage, stirring to coat. Spoon pasta mixture in a 13 x 9-inch baking dish coated with cooking spray. Top with remaining sauce.

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Cooking Spray