Sausage and Broccoli Pasta. Add the broccoli, red pepper flakes, salt, and pepper and stir. And then I met this sausage and broccoli pasta recipe. And then everything went off the rails.
This recipe is definitely a dinner favorite around my house. It's pretty quick and easy to make and is a one pot dish. Liven up midweek pasta with a fiery sausage and chilli hit, from BBC Good Food magazine. You can have Sausage and Broccoli Pasta using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Sausage and Broccoli Pasta
- You need 500 g of fresh fusilli or other pasta.
- It's 400 g of tenderstem broccoli.
- You need 50 g of soft cheese.
- You need 8 of sausages.
- You need 20 g of grated parmesan.
- It's 3 cloves of garlic.
- Prepare 1 tsp of fennel seeds.
- You need 1 handful of fresh basil.
- It's of Black pepper.
- It's of Olive oil.
I cook the pasta and broccoli at the same time all in the same pot, which creates a pesto-like broccoli sauce the kids can't pick out (trust me, it's so good!). This is the only way I can get Madison to eat broccoli cooked! If you like it hot, you can swap the sweet sausage for hot. This broccoli and sausage pasta recipe is ideal for busy weeknights or when you don't want to buy a lot of ingredients.
Sausage and Broccoli Pasta step by step
- Dice the garlic and tear the basil leaves off ready. Cut the broccoli into small pieces..
- Cut the sausages directly into a large frying pan. I use thirds..
- Add oil and cook on a medium heat..
- Add cold water to a pot and stick on the heat ready for the pasta..
- Once the sausages are browned all over. Add the broccoli, basil, fennel seeds and garlic. (I realised I forgot to chop the broccoli at this point and chopped them quickly).
- Add the pasta to the boiling pan. Turning off once cooked (about 4 minutes)..
- Once the broccoli is cooked. Turn off the heat. Add a ladel of water from the pasta to the frying pan. Add in the cream cheese and stir..
- Drain the pasta and put into bowls..
- Add the contents of the frying pan to the bowls, sprinkle with parmesan and black pepper to serve..
Cellentani or cavatappi pasta is a pasta tube that has been twisted to resemble the shape of a corkscrew. If you don't have either of these pastas, you can use rotini or fusilli pasta instead. We make this broccoli rabe and sausage pasta every few weeks, it is that delicious. It is the type of dish that you'll make over and over again, and My recipe below uses spicy Hot Italian pork sausage and adds kalamata olives, umami rich sun-dried tomatoes, and lots and lots of fresh garlic into the mix. Are you searching for that perfect dinner meal for the family that will give them flavor and nutrition?