As a working Mom I often have to cook meals that can be made in minutes. Sometimes I am so tired I hardly feel that I can make any food, but then pasta will save me!!
Luckily all my family members enjoy pasta. They prefer homemade fresh pasta, but if they are hungry I can dish up dry pasta with a nice sauce, and they will be happy!
I have learned that something that can brighten up most pasta dishes is chorizo sausages! I have made this delicious pasta dish on a Tuesday night. On that particular day I did not have time to go and do shopping since the previous Monday and used up everything that was left in my fridge! Luckily there was some chorizo sausages, a bottle of Princess Pesto’s red pesto and some fresh basil in my herb garden. It was a delicious meal!
Ingredients
400g dried pasta
Three quarters of a bottle of Pesto Princess’s red pesto (Hubby ate the rest on his sandwich 
!!)
15ml olive oil
450g chorizo sausages, sliced
I small onion, peeled and sliced
4 baby marrows, sliced
50g pitted black olives
200g feta, crumbed
a handful of fresh basil leaves
salt and pepper
Method
Cook the pasta in a large saucepan of salted boiling water following packet directions until al dente. Drain.
Mix the drained pasta with the red pesto.
Heat the oil in a large frying pan. Add the chorizo, onion and baby marrow and cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
Add the chorizo mixture to the pasta and gently toss to combine.
Add the black olives, feta and fresh basil and season with salt and black pepper.
Serve medium hot.
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a great pasta dish., take the pasta away and you have my favourite pizza! x
You are right – it is great toppings for a pizza!
That pesto is just fantastic, Pinky, it’s helped me do a quick meal on many occasions
Their pesto is simply the best – if only I can get the rest of the fam not to touch it!!
Now, if I just had some chorizo in the fridge.
Lovely flavourful meal Pink. 
Mandy
Thanks, Mandy!!
Super recipe PPD. Thanks for sharing.
xxx
I ma so gladthat you like it!!
I completely agree – chorizo sausages can improve almost any meal, but they really come into their own when we have no idea what to cook. Dinner will then often be pasta with chorizo as you suggest, or risotto or paella!
Thank you!! We hav ethe same taste buds!!
–I am drooling over here….. WOW.
…good!!
Gorgeous colors in this dish! I love feta in just about anything, hehe.
We love Google Alerts. They brought us to this blog!
What a lovely surprise, to see our pesto given such a gleaming feature – it makes our little jar of red blush and go even redder!
Thank you. For both the unexpected feature, and the simple, tasty recipe…
With love from The Palace