Black Spaghetti with Sausage and Pesto
This Black spaghetti with sausage and pesto is a great dish to serve for Halloween dinner. It is a quick and easy pasta dish, and it won't gross you out like some other extreme Halloween food would.
Ingredients
- 1 package (16 oz) black spaghetti
- 1 lb pork sausage or any kind you like
For the Pesto sauce:
- 2 cup fresh basil leaves
- 1/4 cup pine nuts
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cut sausage into about 1-inch size chunks
- Poke 6-10 spaghetti noodles through each sausage pieces. When done, drain the noodles and drizzle olive oil to prevent them from sticking.
- Boil water and cook sausage spaghetti noodles according to package directions, about 9 minutes.
- To make pesto sauce, put basil, pine nuts, garlic, and Parmesan cheese in a food processor. Pulse them together as you drizzle the olive oil through a tube until well blended. Season with salt and pepper.
- Toss the spaghetti with pesto sauce and serve.