Title: Olive garden neopolitan ziti
 Categories: Beef, Pasta, Copycat
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
           -WALDINE VAN GEFFEN
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  1 1/2 lb Sweet/hot Italian link
           Sausage
  1 1/3 c  Green bell pepper -- 1x1/4"
      2 tb Olive oil
    3/4 lb Ziti pasta -- cooked
           Parmesan cheese -- grated
           Parsley bouquets
      5 c  Marinara sauce
     28 oz Canned tomatoes-Italian
           Style or plum
 10 3/4 oz Tomato puree
      1 ts Garlic -- minced
      4 tb Olive oil
    1/2 c  Fresh basil -- packed,
           Chopped
           Salt and pepper
 
  Bake or pan-fry the sausages until fully cooked, drain, cool. Halve
  the sausages and cut the split sausages into 1/2" slices. Saute the
  bell peppers in olive oil over moderate heat only until their
  crispness is loss, but peppers are not soft. In a heavy sauce pan add
  the tomatoes, tomato puree, garlic, olive oiil and fresh basil and
  bring to a light simmer on moderate heat. Add the sauteed pepper
  strips and cooked sausage and heat for 3 to 5 minutes. Serve the
  pasta, topped with the sausage, peppers and salsa marinara and
  garnish each plate with a parsley bouquet. Pass the Parmesan. Source:
  The Olive Garden.