Campsite cooking: Italian-style sausage pasta

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Home-made pasta sauce always beats the stuff in a jar and this simple recipe is a firm camping favourite – perfect for a double-burner stove.

Use fresh tomatoes and good-quality Italian sausages from a local farm shop to give it an authentic taste.

Vegetarians and vegans can add veggie sausage instead, but the tomato pasta is delicious on its own

Ingredients (for 4)

• 5/6 large fresh tomatoes
• 1 tsp of dried oregano
• A good glug of Italian olive oil
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 300g of dry pasta
• A splash of red wine vinegar
• 1 tsp of sugar
• Salt and pepper
• 6 Italian-style sausages
• A lump of Parmigiano-Reggiano

How to cook it

Start by frying the sausages, then cover them and leave to one side.

Plunge the tomatoes into boiling water for 30 seconds or so to loosen the skins, making them easy to peel and deseed. If this seems like too much hard work, tinned tomatoes will work fine.

Once the tomatoes are prepped, pour a healthy glug of olive oil into a warm – not hot – pan.

Add the garlic and the oregano to the oil. When you can smell the garlic cooking, add the tomatoes, swiftly followed by the sugar, seasoning and a splash of vinegar.

Let it cook away until the tomatoes have softened and turned from a bright red to a much darker shade.

While that’s happening, cook and drain the pasta of your choice on the other burner.

If the sauce becomes too thick it can easily be let down with a little of the cooking water from your pasta.

When it’s ready, add the sauce to the pasta, chop up the sausage and add to the mix.

Grate fresh Parmigiano-Reggiano on top, serve up and enjoy.

COOK IT ON…

Outdoor Revolution Twin Burner Gas Stove & Grill

The new Twin Burner Gas Stove and Grill lets you up your campsite cooking game considerably, offering the perfect blend of high performance, compact size and style. What makes it unique is the way it operates.

Unusually for a double burner and grill, it runs off a 450g screw-fitting butane/propane canister – which Outdoor Revolution also supplies – rather than a heavy, refillable gas cylinder, cutting down on space and weight during transportation.

You only pay for the gas you need to use when you are away whether, it be for a weekend or an extended trip.

Expect to pay £99.99

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