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Best Rigatoni with fennel sausage sauce in New York

Rigatoni with fennel sausage sauce

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Real ingredients (via TheMealDB): 2½ tbsp olive oil, 6 cut into 1.5cm-thick slices Italian fennel sausages, 1 large peeled and chopped onion, 1 trimmed and roughly chopped; reserve any fronds to garnish fennel bulb, ½ tsp smoky paprika, 1 clove, peeled and sliced garlic, 2 tsp lightly toasted and then gently crushed fennel seeds, 100ml red wine, 400g tinned chopped tomatoes, ½ tsp caster sugar, 50g cut in half lengthways pitted black olives, 500g rigatoni…

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Heat a tablespoon of oil in a large saute pan for which you have a lid. Add the sausage pieces and fry on a medium-high heat for 10 minutes, stirring regularly, until golden-brown all over. Transfer the sausages to a plate, then add the onion and fennel to the hot pan and fry for 15 minutes, stirring once in a while, until soft and caramelised; if the pan goes a bit dry, add a teaspoon or so of extra oil. Stir in the paprika, garlic and half the fennel seeds, fry for two minutes more, then pour on the wine and boil for 30 seconds, to reduce by half. Add the tomatoes, sugar, 100ml water, the seared sausage and half a teaspoon of salt, cover and simmer for 30 minutes; remove the lid after 10 minutes, and cook until the sauce is thick and rich. Remove from the heat, stir through the olives and remaining fennel seeds and set aside until you’re ready to serve. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil, add the pasta and cook for 12-14 minutes (or according to the instructions on the pa

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