One Pot Sausage Corn Orzo Skillet; Summertime pasta dinner recipe from FOX 11 Living

Italian sausage

🥗Healthier: turkey sausage

💰Cheaper: ground beef

Turkey sausage reduces fat while maintaining flavor.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated mozzarella

Nutritional yeast offers a cheesy flavor with fewer calories.

Start by cooking 1 pound of Italian sausage in a large skillet until browned.

Remove the sausage from the skillet, keeping the drippings in the pan.

Dice 1 onion and add it to the drippings in the skillet; sauté until translucent.

Add diced zucchini to the skillet and stir.

Mince garlic and add it to the onions and zucchini; cook until fragrant.

Add 4 ears of fresh corn (scraped off the cob) to the skillet.

Add a little butter to the skillet along with a pinch of chili flakes and 1 tablespoon of Italian seasoning; stir to combine.

Sprinkle in some flour to thicken the mixture and cook for a minute.

Pour in 2 cups of chicken broth and 2 and 1/4 cups of whole milk; stir well.

Add the orzo to the skillet and bring the mixture to a simmer.

Once simmering, add the cooked sausage back into the skillet along with fresh spinach; stir until the spinach wilts down.

Taste the mixture and adjust seasoning with more cheese, salt, and pepper as needed.

Plate the dish and garnish with additional parmesan cheese.

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