Grandad Eric's 'Curly wurlies'

Up: 🍳Home cooking

Ingredients

• 450 g (1 lb) sausage meat or 6 sausages, skinned
• 2-3 large onions
• Olive oil
• 1 red pepper
• 1 tin of chopped tomatoes
• 1 tube of tomato paste
• 4+ tbsp paprika
• 1+ tsp cayenne pepper (optional, hot)
• 300 g fusilli pasta

Method

1. Peel the onions and slice them as thinly as possible.
2. Gradually cook the sliced onions in olive oil over a low heat for at least 20 minutes, until their volume is much reduced and they look very yellow.
3. Add the sausage meat and cook out, constantly breaking up the sausage meat as it cooks into smaller and smaller pieces that cook faster.
4. Deseed and chop the red pepper.
5. At the same time, heat up a saucepan of water for the pasta.
6. When the sausage meat is cooked through, add the tin of tomatoes and the entire tube of tomato paste and stir well.
7. Add the fusilli to the boiling water and cook as per packet instructions, for about 13 minutes.
8. With just a minute or two of cooking time remaining on the pasta, add the spices to the sauce and stir in well.
9. Drain the pasta and mix into the sauce.