Red Wine-Soaked Sausage Pasta with Dark Chocolate
- ⏱ 12 hours 40 minutes
- Medium
- Serves 2
- 👥 2-cook recipe
Sausages are soaked overnight in red wine before being cooked into a rich tomato sauce finished with dark chocolate.
Adapted from Alex Palermo.
This recipe, inside the app
Two phones, one plan. Tap a step on either phone and watch it tick on the other — that's the live sync, right here in your browser:
Red Wine-Soaked Sau...
0/0
COOK 1COOK 2
1Remove sausage casing
2Soak the sausage
3Plate and serve
+ 6 more steps in the app
Red Wine-Soaked Sau...
0/0
COOK 2COOK 1
1Remove sausage casing
Remove the sausage from its casing and break it into...
2Soak the sausage
In a container, cover the sausage with red wine and...
3Plate and serve
+ 6 more steps in the app
Ingredients
- 250 g pasta
- 300–400 g Italian sausages
- 1–2 cup red wine
- 3–4 garlic cloves (sliced)
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1–2 cup tomato sauce
- 1 dark chocolate
- ½ cup reserved pasta water
- fresh parsley or basil, to taste
- salt and black pepper, to taste
The full plan, split between two cooks
Every step is assigned, so both of you always know what's next.
1. Remove sausage casing
- COOK 1 Remove the sausage from its casing and break it into smaller pieces
2. Soak the sausage
- COOK 1 In a container, cover the sausage with red wine and let it soak overnight in the fridge
3. Slice the garlic
- COOK 2 Slice the garlic
4. Brown the sausage
- COOK 2 In a pan, heat the olive oil and cook the wine-soaked sausage until browned and caramelized
🤝 Cook 1 hands over the sausage.
5. Reduce the sauce
- COOK 2 In the pan, prep the tomato sauce with olive oil and garlic, cooking until softened and fragrant
- COOK 2 In the pan, pour in the tomato sauce and let everything slowly reduce, allowing the flavours to concentrate
- COOK 2 In the pan, add a small piece of dark chocolate and stir until melted, creating a deeper and richer sauce
6. Toss with pasta
- COOK 1 In the pan, toss in the cooked pasta with a splash of reserved pasta water until the sauce becomes glossy and coats every strand
🤝 Cook 2 hands the pan to Cook 1.
7. Plate and serve
- BOTH Finish with fresh herbs and a final crack of black pepper
See it in action
Two phones, one kitchen — ticking a step on one updates the other instantly.
More two-cook recipes
Cook this with your co-chef
Open Red Wine-Soaked Sausage Pasta with Dark Chocolate in Nommer and the checklists above land on your two phones — ticks sync live, handoffs get called out, and everything finishes at the same time. Free on iOS and Android.

