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This meal offers a banana ketchup sauce—spicy, a little sweet, and still made with tomatoes—with sausage, spaghetti, and cherry tomatoes. Our zingy banana ketchup sauce is a play on the popular Filipino ketchup invented when there was a shortage of tomatoes during World War II. It has an unexpected flavor for spaghetti: sour with vinegar, zingy with ginger, spicy with chilis, with a depth of flavor from tomatoes and onions, and finished with the starchy sweetness of bananas. Simply stick the sausages into a bag with this sauce and sous vide them. This is a fully flavored weeknight meal, satisfying without requiring much work from you.