Crock Pot Italian Sausage Rigatoni Recipe is a one-pot meal perfect for busy families and hungry kids. Italian sausage gives pasta an amazing flavor for a dinner that everyone will go crazy about.

Crock Pot Italian Sausage Rigatoni Recipe:

Everything you need for a delicious dinner is in the clay pot. You’ll love coming home for dinner ready to enjoy. This slow cooker pasta is one of our recipes during busy weeks. Just pull and go and let the slow cooker do all the work.

Our family loves this Italian dish and every bite is amazing. The diced tomatoes blend perfectly with the seasonings and make a meal you’ll want to make often! Italian pasta recipes are our favorites.

If you are looking for a slow cooker meal from a pot that is plentiful and tasty, this is the meal for you. It is the perfect recipe for comfort food all year round.

What’s good to serve with Italian sausage rigatoni?

This recipe stays in our regular menu plan rotation because everyone loves it and is SO easy to put together

. Add some bread

• – Make some homemade garlic bread. It’s so easy to make and the perfect side with this Italian sausage Rigaoni.
• Serving is with a salad – This easy Caesar salad works great as an accompaniment to this meal. I always like to serve a salad or a green vegetable, especially with a hearty meal.
• Another tasty bread idea is the recipe for cheese sticks with garlic bread. Oh, those are so tasty if you have the extra time to make them.

Ingredients for Italian sausage

Rigatoni:

• Ground Italian sausage
• Rigatoni
• Chopped garlic
• Onion
• Petite Piced Tomatoes
• Tomato sauce
• Italian seasoning
• Salt and pepper
• Meat broth
• Cheese mozzarella
• Grated Parmesan cheese (optional)

How to make sausage

rigatoni in the pot :

• In a skillet over medium heat, cook the ground Italian sausage until golden brown. Add the ground
• sausage to the clay pot. You can add some olive oil to prevent your food from sticking to the clay pot.
• Next, add the onion, seasonings, diced tomatoes, tomato sauce and broth. Stir to combine.
• Cover and cook.
• Finally, add the pasta 30 minutes before serving. It will look very watery, but don’t worry, the paste will absorb it. If you prefer, you can cook your pasta separately in a large pot. Simply cook rigatoni according to the package.
• Cover and cook the rigatoni until you reach the desired tenderness with the pasta. We cook our pasta al dente.
• Add the mozzarella cheese until melted

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• Serve immediately and top with Parmesan cheese if desired.

Variation ideas

: Try

• different types of meat: Try ground turkey, turkey sausage, or ground beef instead and your family will never notice the difference. You could even skip the meat altogether and add a ricotta mixture to this recipe.

Add

• other vegetables: Add mushrooms, eggplants or whole tomatoes. These vegetables combine perfectly with the Italian sausage. Red peppers are also favorites if I have some to throw away.
• Use different pasta: Any type of medium-sized pasta will work perfectly. Penne or rotini is my personal favorite if I don’t have any rigatoni.
• Spicy Italian sausage – You can add some red pepper flakes. They add a little flavor to this recipe.

Italian sausage slow cooker recipes are easy to prepare and inexpensive

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This is one of those recipes that once you try it, you’ll put into your regular meal plan rotation. We love it, because we often get the ingredients really cheap thanks to sales and coupons.

The good thing about this recipe is that you can change the recipe to adapt it to what you have on hand. You can use ground beef instead of the ground Italian sausage or whatever is in your freezer.

How to store leftovers:

We love having this leftover food. My family really thinks it tastes better the next day. We like to put it in individual containers for an easy lunch.

It will stay good in the refrigerator for up to 3-4 days

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How to

reheat:

If we have the leftovers in an individual container, then we will reheat in the microwave. I start by heating it up to 1 minute and then stir. Continue heating this way until it is completely hot.

If you have a large portion that you are heating, simply place it in a saucepan on the stove. I prefer this method better, as it seems to heat up better.

Italian sausage recipes are so delicious!

The slow cooker simmers everything for such an amazing meal that is quick and easy. Feel free to try pasta sauce, spaghetti sauce or even marinate it at this meal.

We used a lot of stuff instead of tomato sauce in a hurry and it was still so amazing. We love a mixture of pepper and onion with the sauce and oh mi is so good!

You must try this delicious pasta dish recipe!

Print this clay pot Italian sausage

rigatoni

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