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One-Pan Baked Cream Cheese Pasta with Chicken Sausage and Peppers

Prep

15-30 mins

Total

1 HR 8 MIN

Servings

8 Servings

Ingredients

1 pkg

(12 oz.) fully cooked sweet Italian chicken sausage links, sliced

1 cup

green and red pepper strips

1/2 cup

thinly sliced onions

4 cloves

garlic, sliced

1 tbsp

balsamic vinegar

1 tbsp

olive oil

1/2 tsp

crushed red pepper

1 pkg

(8 oz.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese

3 cups

farfalle (bow-tie pasta)

2-1/2 cups

boiling water

2 tbsp

torn fresh basil leaves

Instructions

Step 1

Heat oven to 400ºF.

Step 2

Combine sausage, vegetables, garlic, vinegar, oil and crushed red pepper in 13x9-inch baking dish sprayed with cooking spray.

Step 3

Place block of cream cheese in center of sausage mixture.

Step 4

Bake 25 to 30 min. or until peppers are tender, stirring after 15 min.

Step 5

Add pasta and boiling water to ingredients in baking dish. Use back of spatula to gently press pasta into boiling water so most the pasta is covered with water. Cover with foil.

Step 6

Bake 18 min. Remove baking dish from oven. Stir ingredients in baking dish; cover. Let stand 5 min.

Step 7

Sprinkle with basil before serving.

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