Sausage pasta

• 2 dried red chillies
• 1 tablespoon dried oregano
• olive oil
• 600g sausage (italian or cumberland)
• 500g pasta (fusilli or penne)
• butter
• 2 heaped teaspoons fennel seeds

Optional

• parsley
• parmesan cheese

Step 1

Bash up the fennel seeds and chillies in a pestle and mortar until coarsely crushed. Heat some oil in a frying pan and squeeze the sausage meat out of the skins and put into the pan. Break up the meat into small pieces using the back of a spoon. Fry for a few minutes until the meat starts to brown and crush it again.

Step 2

Stir in the oregano, add the bashed up fennel seeds and chillies and cook on a medium heat for around 10 minutes until the meat becomes crisp.

Step 3

While the meat has 10 minutes left to cook, cook the pasta for 8 minutes.

Step 4

Add the pasta to the frying pan to soak up all the flavours. Then serve in a bowl with an extra sprinkling of parmesan.