Spaghetti with spiced sausage & fennel sauce from Simple: Effortless Food, Big Flavours (page 210) by Diana Henry

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  • swiand on May 14, 2026

    We didn't cook as long as stated due to trying to get to evening events. Never heard of canned cherry tomatoes so we just used fresh. Didn't need water and the sauce was really tasty. We used cabernet sauvignon and loved the sauce. Whole family enjoyed.

  • stepharama1 on December 14, 2022

    Absolutely delicious even though I ended up subbing shrimp for the sausage because I couldn't find the sausage I thought I had in the freezer!

  • catmummery on July 24, 2022

    really delicious sauce. as mentioned below - needs pasta water added and definitely needs to be cooked for this long to get the depth of flavour. i used cooking chorizo which worked well.

  • grindabod on August 03, 2017

    Delicious recipe. I was a bit worried about cooking the fennel for that long, but it makes for an amazing sauce. It's important to add enough of the cooking water from the pasta after all is done simmering, to get that perfect silky rather than purée-y consistency for the sauce.

  • TrishaCP on June 21, 2017

    This was really delicious. I made the sauce in advance since I can't usually spare that amount of time cooking during the week, and I think it only got better sitting overnight. We did use a pound of pasta with it, and I thought that was too much pasta, so will stick to the recipe's ratio in the future.

  • RosieB on March 23, 2017

    Great tasty pasta dish. Definitely make again.

  • bwhip on March 21, 2017

    We really loved this dish. Great depth of flavor, especially for something that doesn't take too long to prepare. My fennel bulb and onion were both pretty large, so I wound up needing to add water to the sauce as it simmered to keep it from being too thick and dry. I also thought it could have used closer to a pound of spaghetti, as the ratio of sauce to pasta noodles was heavily in favor of the sauce. We'll definitely make this again, it was delicious.

  • e_ballad on January 01, 2017

    Absolutely lives up to the book's title. Jam-packed with flavour, though was not overwhelmingly 'fennel-y'. Made 6x large serves.

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