Prep & Bake Pearl Pasta with Pork Sausage
plus Zucchini, Spinach & Creamy Tomato Sauce
- Milk
- Wheat
For this creamy, delicious meal, hearty Italian sausage simmers in our oven-ready tray with springy pearl couscous, crushed tomatoes, zucchini, spinach, and Italian herbs. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese, and enjoy this dish in a quick 35 minutes. The best part? Toss or recycle the empty tray when you're done for practically no cleanup!
Ingredients
1 tablespoon
Tuscan Heat Spice
1 unit
Crushed Tomatoes
5 ounce
Spinach
3 tablespoon
Parmesan Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
1 tablespoon
Italian Herb Paste
¾ cup
Israeli Couscous
(Contains: Wheat)
1 unit
Zucchini
1 unit
Chicken Stock Concentrate
4 tablespoon
Cream Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
9 ounce
Italian Pork Sausage Mix
1 unit
Oven-Ready Tray
Not included in your delivery
Salt
Pepper
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Adjust rack to middle position and preheat oven to 450 degrees. Wash and dry produce. • Trim and halve zucchini lengthwise; slice crosswise into ¼-inch-thick half moons. • Remove sausage* from casing if necessary; discard casing. Place sausage in oven-ready tray; using two forks (or your hands!), break up sausage into bite-size pieces (for 4 servings, divide sausage between two trays).
• Add zucchini, couscous, crushed tomatoes, Italian herb paste, stock concentrate, ¼ cup water(½ cup for 4 servings), cream cheese, half the Tuscan Heat Spice (all for 4), salt, and pepper; stir to combine (it’s OK if lumps of cream cheese remain). (For 4, divide everything between two trays.) • Top with spinach. (TIP: Evenly spread out spinach and press down, making sure no leaves hang over the edges of your tray!) Cover oven-ready tray tightly with foil; bake on middle rack (be sure your oven has preheated!) for 25 minutes (for 4, bake two trays side by side on middle rack).
• Carefully remove foil from pearl pasta sausage bake (watch out for steam!); stir until cream cheese is smooth and spinach is combined. • Top pearl pasta sausage bake with Parmesan, return to middle rack, and bake, uncovered, until sausage is fully cooked and cheese melts, 10-12 minutes more.
• Divide pearl pasta sausage bake between shallow bowls. Serve.
Ground Meat is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 160°.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Feb 2026- Flavor: Many loved the taste, calling it delicious and fabulous. Some found the combination of flavors and textures particularly enjoyable 🎉.
- Ease of prep: Quick and easy to assemble, but several noted the tray was too small for mixing ingredients comfortably.
- Suggestions: Consider browning the sausage separately first. For better texture, slice zucchini thinner and cook longer to reduce excess liquid.
- Leftovers: Reheats well and makes great leftovers. Some found the pearl couscous expanded slightly when stored.
- Cooking time: A few needed to extend cooking time to fully cook the sausage and achieve desired texture for vegetables and couscous.
Reviews from our home cooks
Great taste. The preparation as written however is a bit awkward. It was easier to mix up in a bowl then transfer to the pan. If I made it again I would cook the meat in a frying pan first.
May be one of your best for taste and ease of preparation.
So delicious and easy to assemble ahead of time for a busy week night dinner
Yummy, next time I want to cut the zucchini into smaller pieces
I had to cook an additional 25 minutes because the couscous and zucchini wasn't near crispy steamed as I expected. The end result was super watery on the bottom. The flavor was great, the combo veg & protein also great.
Pans were too small, it was very hard to mix, pork didn't cook in the cook time and I had to cook longer in a pan to get the pork to cook through. Zucchini was also not baked properly in the cook time.
Pearl pasta was different. Leftovers kind of increased in size a little.
Tasted a lot better than it looks. Very good easy meal.
It would be nice if the tray was a little bit bigger. The food scarcely fits.
Took too long to cook off the water. Flavor was ok.
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