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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. In a large sauce pan melt butter over medium heat. | 2. Add minced garlic to sauce pan cook for a few minutes but do not brown. | 3. Whisk in the flour to make reux- cook for 3 to 5 minutes whisking constantly- do not let it brown. | 4. Whisk in milk and heat until boiling- whisk often, add some fresh ground pepper. | 5. Once sauce is thickened remove from heat and set aside (well get back to the this later). | 6. In a large frying pan over medium-high heat add 3 Tbs olive oil add onions and slice the remaining garlic into pan sautee for 3 minutes until onion starts to soften. | 7. Add peppers, Italian seasoning cook for 5 minutes until Peppers begin to soften. | 8. Add cooked Sausage and warm through. | 9. Just before vegetable and meat mixture is finished- heat White sauce and stir in the cream, bring up to almost a boil and stir in parmesean and gorgonzola. | 10. Stir sauce until most of the gorgonzola is incorportated (lumps of cheese left in the sauce is a good thing!). | 11. Check cream sauce for salt add if necessary. | 12. In pasta bowls place Penne followed by Pepper onion meat mixture, then spoon on the Gorgonzola sauce, arrange mushrooms and asparagas on top. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
butter	1/2	cup		684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
flour	8	tablespoons		289.14	63.3027	4.7005	1.1218
milk	4	cups		595.36	46.6528	30.744	31.9152
cream	1	pint		-	-	-	-
gorgonzola	8	ounces	crumbled	201.7333	0.0	44.88	1.1333
parmesan cheese	1/2	cup	grated	148.0	16.0	16.0	2.0
garlic	6	cloves	minced	26.82	5.9508	1.1448	0.09
salt pepper			ground	201.7333	0.0	44.88	1.1333
garlic	6	cloves	sliced	26.82	5.9508	1.1448	0.09
onion	2		chopped sweet	88.0	20.548000000000002	2.42	0.22
bell pepper	3		julienned red	201.7333	0.0	44.88	1.1333
italian sausage	1 1/2 - 2	lbs	cooked cut	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
asparagus	1		cooked	90.7186	17.5994	9.979	0.5443
portabella mushroom	1		sliced	-	-	-	-
penne pasta	1 1/2	1/2	cooked	201.7333	0.0	44.88	1.1333
extra virgin olive oil				201.7333	0.0	44.88	1.1333
italian seasoning	1	teaspoon		201.7333	0.0	44.88	1.1333
salt pepper				201.7333	0.0	44.88	1.1333

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.