Pasta with Sausage, Tomatoes and Roasted Peppers

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon olive oil extra virgin 
• 0.8 pound sausage sweet italian hot
• 2  garlic cloves minced
• 1 cup roasted bell peppers red chopped
• 1 tablespoon capers 
• 0.5 cup olives black pitted halved
• 3 large tomatoes fresh seeded chopped
• 0.3 cup basil fresh chopped
• 1 pound pasta 

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• pot
• wooden spoon

Directions

1. Heat a large pot of salted water (1 Tbsp salt per 2 quarts of water) to a boil.
2. Brown the sausage, add garlic, roasted red peppers, capers and olives: While the water is heating, prepare the sausage and peppers.
3. Heat the olive oil in a large sauté pan on medium heat.
4. Add the sausage, breaking it up into bits with your fingers as you add it to the pan or with a wooden spoon once it's in the pan.
5. When the sausage starts to brown, add the garlic and cook for another minute.
6. Mix in the roasted red peppers, capers and olives. If the pasta water isn't boiling yet, remove the sauté pan from the heat.
7. Cook the pasta: Once the pasta water is boiling, add the pasta to the pot.
8. Add chopped tomatoes and basil to sausage mixture: When the pasta is almost done, increase the heat to high on the sauté pan and when the sausage mixture starts to sizzle, add the chopped tomatoes and basil. Toss to combine and lower the heat to medium-low.
9. Combine pasta and sausage mixture:
10. Drain the pasta and put it in a large bowl.
11. Add the sausage mix to the bowl and toss to combine.