Roasted Asparagus Caprese Pasta

Caprese pasta is a staple of Italian and Mediterranean food. It's lower carb than a lot of foods, but the pasta alone might be more carbs then you want in your diet. Especially if you're a diabetic or trying to lose weight. But to be able to even eat pasta at all on a low carb diet is a gift unto itself. I'm not going to lie, nearly all the carbs in this entire recipe come from the pasta, but if you're looking for a low carb pasta dish you won't be disappointed.

To get all the fresh flavors and full effect of this recipe you have to get some pretty specific things and don't substitute any ingredients this time:

• you're going to need Barilla Rotini Pasta made with Chickpeas. It is the lower carb semi-normal noodle. We refush to eat Shiritraki noodles every again because they stink, are rubbery, and taste like garbage (no lie!)
• you need cherry tomatoes, do not substitute
• try to get asapargus that is of normal size and not spindly stalks
• get fresh flat leaf italian parsley, not dried
• get fresh basil leaves, do not try and use dried
• sweet italian turkey sausage has zero carbs, most regular italian sausages have 1 carb per 2 oz serviing - you be the judge here
• use fresh mozzerella cheese since nearly all brands have almost no carbs - do NOT try and use shredded mozzerella which almost always has carbs because of the filler