Sausage Ragu And Spinach Pasta Bake

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 3
• 3 lamb sausage links
• 340 g chopped tomatoes with garlic and herbs, pureed
• 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
• 250 g pasta
• 200 g spinach
• 50 g parmesan cheese
• 13 g plain flour
• 13 g butter
• 300 ml milk
• salt and pepper
• 40 g grated cheese

Recipe

• 1 to make the cheese sauce, melt the butter in a saucepan and stir in the flour. remove the pan from the heat and add the milk. stir over a medium heat and bring to the boil. simmer for 8-10 minutes until it begins to thicken. add the cheese and season with salt and pepper.
• 2 chop up the sausages into small pieces and fry in a little oil in a large frying pan over a medium-high heat. add the tomato sauce and bring to the boil. add the oregano, season with salt and pepper and simmer for 10 minutes.
• 3 cook the pasta for 2 mins less than package instructions.
• 4 pour a kettle of boiling water over the spinach to wilt.
• 5 add the pasta to the cheese sauce.
• 6 in a large dish, add the meat sauce and then the spinach, cover with the cheesy pasta mix and top with the parmesan.
• 7 bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes at 180c fan.