Recipe Review–Lemony Linguine with Turkey Sausage & Spinach

It’s been a while since I’ve done a recipe review!

Last night I had some delicious turkey sausage thawed out planning to make Skinnytaste’s Sausage Stuffed  Zucchini Boats – which by the way are AMAZING!!!  I made it a couple of weeks ago & couldn’t get enough.  I actually hid the leftovers so I could take them to work for lunch the next day.  Rich asked for more, but I said there was none. 

Being I knew it was going to be a night where I needed something insanely quick & easy, not to mention I was craving pasta, I decided to search around & found this recipe on a weight loss support group I frequent on Facebook – well, actually the girl took a picture of the magazine & didn’t include the recipe itself.  So I did a simple Google search & the recipe appeared on a blog called Dinner with Friends.  Of course, as luck would have it I didn’t have fresh spinach on hand, but I did have chopped frozen.  I also didn’t have any shallots, but surprisingly I did have green onions.  Perfect – I’ll make it work & I did.

Lemony Linguine with Turkey Sausage & Spinach

(adapted from Dinner with Friends, originally from Weight Watchers)

Ingredients:

1. 1 box of Barilla Whole Grain Linguine
2. 1/2 lb. of Turkey Sausage
3. 10oz. Frozen Chopped Spinach
4. 1/8th cup of Chopped Green Onions
5. 1 – 2 Lemons

Directions:

1. Boil water & cook pasta according to directions on the box.
2. While pasta is cooking, remove turkey sausage from casing & brown in skillet, breaking up with spatula.
3. Steam frozen spinach in microwave, drain & then add to sausage along with green onions.  Continue to warm a couple of minutes.
4. Drain pasta & add to sausage/spinach mixture.
5. Squeeze one to two lemons according to taste.  (I did closer to two!)

I also sprinkled a little bit of Pecorino Romano cheese when serving.  There’s something about having pasta that we need to sprinkle some PRC on it!

The results – delish!  Nice & light with the lemony flavors for summer!  We’ll definitely make again!

Oh – and most importantly – it’s Toddler…errr….Batman approved!