Pearl Pasta with Pork Sausage

🥘 Ingredients

• Israeli couscous
  1.5 c
• Italian herb paste
  2 tbsp
• Italian pork sausage mix
  18 oz
• Parmesan cheese
  6 tbsp
• Tuscan Heat Spice
  1 tbsp
• chicken stock concentrate
  2 unit
• cream cheese
  1/2 c
• crushed tomatoes
  2 unit
• oven-ready tray
  2 unit
• pepper
• salt
• spinach
  10 oz
• water
  4 tbsp
• zucchini
  2 unit

🍳 Cookware

• aluminum foil
• aluminum foil

1. 

   1

   Adjust rack to middle position and preheat oven to 450 degrees. Wash and dry all produce. Trim and halve zucchini lengthwise; slice crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick half moons. Remove Italian pork sausage mix from casing if necessary; discard casing. Place sausage in oven-ready tray ; using two forks (or your hands!), break up sausage into bite-size pieces (for 4 servings, divide sausage between two trays).

   zucchini: 2 unit, Italian pork sausage mix: 18 oz, oven-ready tray: 2 unit
2. 

   2

   Add zucchini, Israeli couscous , crushed tomatoes , Italian herb paste , chicken stock concentrate , water (1/2 cup for 4 servings), cream cheese , half of Tuscan Heat Spice (all for 4), salt , and pepper ; stir to combine (it's OK if lumps of cream cheese remain). For 4, divide everything between two trays. Top with spinach . TIP: Evenly spread out spinach and press down, making sure no leaves hang over the edges of your tray! Cover the tray tightly with aluminum foil ; bake on middle rack (be sure your oven has preheated!) for ⏱️ 25 minutes . For 4, bake two trays side by side on middle rack.

   Israeli couscous: 1.5 c, crushed tomatoes: 2 unit, Italian herb paste: 2 tbsp, chicken stock concentrate: 2 unit, water: 4 tbsp, cream cheese: 1/2 c, Tuscan Heat Spice: 1 tbsp, salt, pepper, spinach: 10 oz
3. 

   3

   Carefully remove aluminum foil from pearl pasta sausage bake (watch out for steam!); stir until cream cheese is smooth and spinach is combined. Top pearl pasta sausage bake with Parmesan cheese , return to middle rack, and bake, uncovered, until sausage is fully cooked and cheese melts, 10-12 minutes more.

   Parmesan cheese: 6 tbsp
4. 

   4

   Divide pearl pasta sausage bake between shallow bowls. Serve.
5. 5

   Ground meat is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 160 degrees F.