Need a recipe for a sauce to put on pasta

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I use a low calorie store-bought pasta sauce, then add some cooked crumbled Isernio's Chicken Italian Sausage, a clove of garlic and some fresh basil from my garden. Simmer a few minutes. When fall comes, I pick the rest of my basil and freeze it in baggies. Anyway, if you haven't tried the chicken italian sausage, you are missing out. It is delicious. I prefer it to the regular italian sausage and used it even when I wasn't trying to eat healthy.

I make this sauce a lot. It's ridiculously easy to make! It's a modification of Gina's skinny taste sauce (original recipe here: http://www.skinnytaste.com/2009/01/spinach-stuffed-shells-with-meat-sauce.html)

1 lb of 99% lean ground turkey meat
2 28-oz cans of crushed tomatoes
One cup of chopped onions
One tablespoon of olive oil (could probably use less!)
Spices of your choosing (I use garlic powder, salt, and pepper. The original recipe calls for fresh garlic but I'm a terrible cook and don't know how to cut/cook garlic haha)

Saute the onions in the oil. Add the ground turkey meat. Add the crushed tomatoes. Simmer!

I bag it up into half-cup servings. It makes roughly 15 servings. I love it over pasta & ravioli!

Calories per serving: 85.
Carbs: 7 grams
Fat: 1 grams
Protein: 11 grams

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20g soft cheese, chopped spring onions, teaspoon chilli, garlic clove crushed, spinach leaves, 10g half fat creme fraiche, ground pepper to season

melt the low fat cheese in a frying pan, add the spring onions, chilli and Garlic, cook over a low heat.
Put the spinach in a colander and pour over boiling water, leave to drain.

Mix all together then pour over pasta (or mix it all in)

Is very nice

Always mix the pasta with te sauce

just like a my momma use ta make

Haha I know.. but I like pasta and just a bit of sauce... :ohwell:

I have two go-to recipes:

For tomato sauce, I heat olive oil in a pan. I add minced garlic at the beginning so that it flavors the oil. Then I add tomato puree and basil (I use frozen chopped, but fresh should be fine). You can jazz it up with anything you like, such as onion or red pepper flakes.

For more of an Asian thing, I wok fry my meat and vegetables in olive oil with garlic, add soy sauce or teriyaki, and then pour on top of brown rice or Asian noodles, using the liquids from cooking as my pasta sauce.

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Here is one that we like a lot. The Turkey Italian Sausage is really good. Perdue is way better than Jenny O brand if you have a choice. Not sure how low you want your fat or sodium, but these are big servings... you could easily reduce if you were so inclined.

Spicy Turkey Pasta Sauce
from Better Homes & Gardens New Dieters Cookbook

9-ounce package refrigerated fettuccine or linguine
8-ounces uncooked turkey Italian sausage (remove casings, if present)
1 cup cut up pattypan squash or yellow summer squash
1 small red sweet pepper, cut into thin strips
1/4 cup chopped red onion
14 oz jar of pasta sauce (we just used Aldi's Reggiano Pasta Sauce)
2T shredded Parmesan Cheese (optional)

1. Cook pasta according to package directions; drain
2. Meanwhile, in a large skillet cook the sausage, squash, sweet pepper and onion over medium heat until sausage is brown; drain off fat. Stir in the pasta sauce; heat through
3. Serve sausage mixture over pasta. If desired, sprinkle with parmesan cheese

4 servings

Nutrition Facts per serving:
350 cal
10 g total fat (3 g sat fat)
110 mg chol
866 mg sodium
49 g carb
5 g fiber
20 g protein

Daily Values
23% Vit A
67% Vit C
11% Calcium
19% Iron