Corn & spicy sausage orecchiette from I Dream of Dinner (So You Don't Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes (page 149) by Ali Slagle

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  • bernalgirl on August 09, 2025

    A great summer pasta, I added a handful of haricot vert cut to 1 cm with the corn and 3 oz. of chopped baby spinach at the end. The resulting proportion of pasta to sausage to veg was perfect.

  • bernalgirl on August 01, 2025

    A great summer pasta! I added a handful of haricot vert cut to 1 cm with the corn, and 3 oz of of chopped baby spinach at the end, and garnished with shredded parm. We thoroughly enjoyed it.

  • shylastrath on July 31, 2025

    Added cherry tomatoes, baby spinach, basil, and Parmesan. Would definitely make again with these additions! Good the next day.

  • emilycaj on May 20, 2025

    Like ksg518, I also made this with sweet Italian sausage to appease the kiddos. I still thought it was good and satisfying, but it was pretty bland. I bet it's delicious with the hot Italian sausage!

  • averythingcooks on August 03, 2023

    As much as I love corn, we were also a bit underwhelmed here. It was certainly lifted by stirring some herb & garlic Boursin into the sauce and then adding chopped pickled red peppadews plus some grated parmesan at the end.

  • hirsheys on July 31, 2023

    I found this underwhelming - the sausage overpowered the taste of the corn, which was a bummer, because it was a fuss grating the corn.

  • ksg518 on June 19, 2023

    For me this was only OK but that may be due to using sweet sausage instead of spicy. As made, it was just too sweet although adding the parm helped. I made it with sweet sausage since it was going to serve some small children. One child liked it but the other (who loves corn, sausage and pasta) refused to even try it.

  • SheilaS on September 19, 2022

    I thought this was excellent. Loved the contrast between spicy sausage and sweet corn. It needed a hit of acid so I threw in some halved grape tomatoes which worked perfectly.

  • pattyatbryce on September 11, 2022

    Very good and extremely easy. I agree that a touch of parm takes it from good to great.

  • snoozermoose on September 10, 2022

    This is absolutely delicious! The combo of sweet corn (and there is a lot of corn in this!) and spicy savory sausage is addictive. My husband proclaimed this his new favorite pasta.

  • Lepa on June 30, 2022

    This is really satisfying. I used sausage that was not spicy so the kids could eat it. Otherwise I followed the recipe but added a bit of parmesan at the end.

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