Sausage & Swiss Chard Skillet

Ingredients

• Orecchiette Pasta or Small Tube Pasta
• 1 Tbsp Olive Oil
• 1/2 lb Italian Sausage
• 1/2 cup Red Onion, chopped
• 1 Fennel bulb, chopped
• 1/2 lb Baby Portobello Mushrooms, sliced
• 3 Garlic Cloves, minced
• 1 bunch Swiss Chard, trimmed & chopped
• 3/4 cup Grated Parmesan Cheese
• 1/2 cup Pine Nuts or Chopped Walnuts

Directions

1. Remove casings from sausage
2. Cook pasta al dente
3. In large skillet, cook sausage and onion until no pink in sausage.  Crumble  the sausage while cooking
4. Add fennel, mushrooms and garlic, cook until tender
5. Add Swiss Chard, cook until wilted and then another 4-5 minutes
6. Mix in 1/2 of the Parmesan cheese
7. Serve on bed of pasta with remaining Parmesan on top

Notes

• Spinach or Collard Greens can replace Swiss Chard
• Turkey Sausage or Hot Italian Sausage are great variations