Spaghetti and Ground Italian Sausage

Ingredients

• Onions

  Raw

  1 small or 70g

• Green bell pepper

  Sweet, green, raw

  1 medium or 119g

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  2 tsp or 9g

• Garlic

  Raw

  3 clove or 9g

• Ground turkey

  Poultry food products, raw

  1 lb or 454g

• Oregano

  Spices, dried

  3 tsp, ground or 5g

• Basil

  Spices, dried

  ½ tbsp, ground or 2g

• Pasta sauce

  Spaghetti/marinara, ready-to-serve

  350g

• Parmesan cheese

  Shredded

  50g

• Spaghetti

  Dry, unenriched

  8 oz or 227g

Directions

1. PREP: Chop onion and green peppers. Mince garlic cloves.
2. In a large saucepan, saute onion and green pepper in oil until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer.
3. Meanwhile, cook the ground italian sausage in a separate pan until cooked through. Add basil and oregano to taste (the measurements above are not what you should really use- do it to taste once the turkey is cooked).
4. Combine the onion, green pepper, and garlic with the cooked sausage. Add the pasta sauce and simmer until hot.
5. Serve with parmesan cheese if so desired!
6. Meanwhile, boil the pasta