Spicy Sausage Maltagliati

What is it?

Irregular-cut fresh pasta is filled with spicy Italian sausage in this frozen meal. Maltagliati are the rough-edged scraps you get when pasta sheets are cut by hand, so the pieces don’t look uniform, and that’s part of the point. In the Sainsbury's freezer range, it sits closer to a filled pasta than a sauced ready meal, with the filling doing most of the work. Cook it from frozen, usually in a pan or boiling water depending on the pack instructions, then finish with sauce or butter. The texture is meant to stay tender rather than firm.