Olive Garden Neopolitan Ziti

  1 1/2 lb Sweet/hot Italian link
           Sausage
  1 1/3 c  Green bell pepper -- 1x1/4"
      2 tb Olive oil
    3/4 lb Ziti pasta -- cooked
           Parmesan cheese -- grated
           Parsley bouquets
      5 c  Marinara sauce
     28 oz Canned tomatoes-Italian
           Style or plum
 10 3/4 oz Tomato puree
      1 ts Garlic -- minced
      4 tb Olive oil
    1/2 c  Fresh basil -- packed,
           Chopped
           Salt and pepper

Bake or pan-fry the sausages until fully cooked, drain, cool. Halve the sausages and cut the split sausages into 1/2" slices. Saute the bell peppers in olive oil over moderate heat only until their crispness is loss, but peppers are not soft. In a heavy sauce pan add the tomatoes, tomato puree, garlic, olive oiil and fresh basil and bring to a light simmer on moderate heat. Add the sauteed pepper strips and cooked sausage and heat for 3 to 5 minutes. Serve the pasta, topped with the sausage, peppers and salsa marinara and garnish each plate with a parsley bouquet. Pass the Parmesan.


Yield: 4 Servings