- Hey guys, today I
wanted to share with you
a quick and easy recipe for
a great weeknight dinner.
It is my Orecchiette Pasta
with Spicy Italian Sausage
and Baby Broccoli.
I love this dinner idea
because it's full of flavor
coming from the kick
of the Italian sausage
and the Parmesan cheese.
It's also so quick because
the pasta and the sausage
can cook simultaneously,
making each one done at the same time.
Let me show you how to put it together.
So you're first gonna
get your pasta boiling.
I really like to use the Orecchiette pasta
but you really could
use any kind you like.
While your pasta's boiling,
you're gonna heat some olive oil
in a large saute pan,
then you're gonna remove
the sausage from its casing.
I like to use the hot Italian sausage,
but you could use the mild as well
if you didn't like a lot of heat.
And then you're just
gonna brown the sausage,
cutting it up with your spoon
until it's brown on all sides
and completely cooked through.
Then you're gonna transfer the sausage
onto a plate lined with some paper towel
to just drain the oil from it,
but you don't want to clean the pan,
'cause we wanna keep any of
the drippings that have formed
because we are going to deglaze this pan
with half a cup of white wine.
And as you do that,
you'll see all of those little brown bits
at the bottom will start to dissolve,
and that will really flavor the wine
and create a great base for our sauce.
And then to that,
you're also gonna add two
cups of chicken broth,
and then you wanna put this on simmer
until it reduces by about a third.
Then you're gonna add back in the sausage
and your baby broccoli.
It's a great, tender vegetable
that cooks up really quickly,
which is why it's great
for a weeknight meal,
but if you couldn't
find the baby broccoli,
you could also use regular
size broccoli as well.
So you don't need to cook it long,
just for a few minutes,
maybe even two minutes max,
just until it starts
to turn a bright green.
And at that stage,
you can then add your cooked pasta
that has been drained.
And you just wanna stir the pasta around
until it's coated with the sauce
and the broccoli and the sausage.
And then you're gonna add half a cup
of freshly grated Parmesan cheese.
And you can stir that up,
and the cheese will start to combine
with the hot broth and the wine
creating kind of like a cheesy sauce.
Then you can transfer the whole thing
into a big serving bowl,
and top with a little bit more cheese,
and then I also like to put on top
some freshly chopped Italian parsley,
which is a nice freshness
against the spiciness of the sausage.
At this point, if you
couldn't find that hot sausage
and you do want a little bit of a kick,
you could add a little
bit of red pepper flakes
at this stage.
This is a recipe that makes
for great leftovers as well,
so if you don't finish the
whole thing for dinner,
not to worry, you can pack it
in the lunch box the next day.
I hope you guys give this one a try
and let me know what you think.
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Alright you guys, I'll see
you back here next week
for another quick and easy
recipe, until then, bye.
