Hi guys, I'm Laura Vitale and on this episode
of Laura in the Kitchen, I want to share with
you my updated pasta with broccoli recipe
that is so good, it is the best pasta with
broccoli you'll ever have in your life hands
down, this is the only way I've been making
it and I've been making it like this a long
time, I just never updated you but now that
we're sort of sprinkling these updated versions
of recipes here and there on Laura in the
Kitchen, I could not resist sharing this with
you because it's quick, it's easy, it's so
minimal ingredients but maximum flavor type
of thing, it's phenomenal.
The list of ingredients is really short and
sweet, you'll need pasta, orecchiette here
are really a must because they've got a lot
of surface area to get nice and crispy, and
the little cup shape holds them to the broccoli
so well.
You need a lot of broccoli florets, you can
see that they've been chopped into bite size
pieces.
You need freshly grated parmigiano, olive
oil, some garlic, you want it peeled but not
chopped.
Little bit of butter, some salt and that's
pretty much it!
I mean it's really easy but I am telling you
it is so phenomenal that once you make it
this way you will never make it any other
way again.
I've got a large pot with boiling salted water.
Now, depending on how long your pasta takes
to cook, just read the instructions on the
package, so let's say this pasta takes 12
minutes to cook, right?
I'm only going to cook this for 6 minutes,
after 6 minutes I'm going to add the broccoli,
cook it for 2 more minutes so the pasta altogether
is going to cook for about 8 minutes, because
it's going to cook for about 5 to 6 minutes
in the skillet, so you're going to cook it
shy of a few minutes and the broccoli goes
in, two minutes before the pasta is done,
so add the pasta in and in six minutes we
will add the broccoli, and then we will let
both things cook together for about 2 minutes.
Alright now keep in mind that I did add the
broccoli in with the pasta, about 6 minutes
in, and I let them cook together for 2 more
minutes, my timer is up.
Drained everything and I reserved some of
the cooking water.
Now in here, I've got olive oil with some
garlic sizzling away, it's getting nice and
golden.
I'm not going to let the garlic - I didn't
chop the garlic because I'm going to take
the garlic out eventually, but now stand back
because this will splatter.
You're going to take your drained pasta and
broccoli and you're going to add that i, and
what you're going to do is you're going to
cook this for about 4 or 5 minutes on about
medium right between medium and medium high
and you're not going to toss this until you
see that the bottom the pieces of pasta have
some good crunchy color and golden brown on
them, you're going to keep doing that until
a lot of the pasta has that crispy coating
on it, it is so phenomenal, you cannot even
imagine.
I'm not adding any more salt to this because
my boiling water was well salted, so my pasta
and my broccoli got their seasoning from the
very beginning.
But you want to make sure that it's perfectly
seasoned before you add it in here otherwise
you're not going to be able to really sprinkle
the salt evenly, so make sure that the water
is well salted so that you don't have to do
it here.
I'm going to keep my eye on this, cook it
and stir it, let it cook, stir, you're going
to keep doing that until the broccoli cooks
into the pasta and it really breaks down a
lot, becomes one with the sauce it's phenomenal,
just you trust me.
So this is pretty much what you're looking
for, you see a lot of places really crispy
and wonderful and nibbly and crispy perfection,
you see that?
That is what you want!
Now obviously, not every piece is going to
be that way, you can stand here for ten more
minutes and keep doing the same thing and
it will get there but then you don't really
have any texture of pasta, it's too crispy.
So you have to have a good balance of the
two and it's perfection.
Now, you take a little bit of the starchy
cooking water, it's not going to make the
crispy bits soggy, I promise.
Along with about a tablespoon of good butter.
And a good grating of parm.
And this is your sauce, it is so good, it
is so easy and so simple and I'm telling you
it's the best pasta with broccoli recipe on
the face of the planet.
I also took out the garlic, they did their
job when they flavored the oil so Idon't really
need it for anything else.
But that to me looks money.
I'm going to just turn this off, look at this.
Look how gorgeous.
You see how the broccoli has become the sauce?
That's what you want my friend!
That is what you want!
You want that crispy pasta, you want the broccoli
to just become the sauce with the cheese it
is the best broccoli pasta ever and I'm just
going to take some for myself.
Those crispy bits right there going to be
for me.
I'll deal with the rest later.
Yes!
Mmm!
You hear the crunch?
Look at that!
That is heaven on earth inside my mouth!
That's a broccoli and pasta recipe that I
want, this is the kind that I love and I think
that you will too.
Go to LauraintheKitchen.com, get the recipe,
I hope you have enjoyed spending time with
me and I'll see you next time.
Bye!
