Orecchiette with Broccoli and Sausage - Rossella's Cooking with Nonna

Italian sausage

🥗Healthier: chicken sausage

💰Cheaper: ground pork

Chicken sausage reduces fat while maintaining flavor.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated pecorino

Nutritional yeast is dairy-free and adds a cheesy flavor.

Introduce the dish and ingredients: broccoli florets, pork sausage, sliced garlic, red pepper flakes, dried orecchiette pasta.

Boil salted water in a pot and add the dried orecchiette pasta, cooking it for about 15-18 minutes.

Add the broccoli florets to the pot with the pasta for the last 5-7 minutes of cooking.

In a separate pan, heat oil until hot.

Add the pork sausage (removed from casing) to the hot oil and begin browning it, breaking it into small pieces with a wooden spoon.

Once the sausage is mostly browned with some char, add the sliced garlic and red pepper flakes, stirring quickly.

Continue to sauté the sausage until it is fully cooked and has a nice color.

Once the pasta is al dente and the broccoli is cooked to preference, drain the pasta and broccoli, saving some of the cooking water.

Combine the drained pasta and broccoli with the sautéed sausage in the pan, tossing everything together to mix well.

Cooking Techniques

Equipment Needed

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