Sucuk and Olive Pasta

At the Turkish supermarket I bought a garlic sausage at the butcher there. But the taste was less garlicky but more cumin.

The heavy dose of cumin had me thinking of sucuk sausage immediately. Now I wanted to try it with pasta.

I did use some fast thin spaghetti as the pasta, but any other kind will work too.

Just a little bit of red pesto mixed in with the pasta water and a small amount of brine from the black olives made the right sauce. The cumin from the sucuk stayed dominant though.

Ingredients:

100 g pasta

1 tsp olive oil

60 g sucuk or Turkish garlic sausage

2 tsp red pesto

40 g black olives

1 tsp olive brine

Sautée the sausage in oil until some of the fat has come out. Add some pasta water and red pesto, black olives and toss in the pasta.