Sausage and Broccoli Pasta. Add the broccoli, red pepper flakes, salt, and pepper and stir. A hearty pasta dish with vegetables and flavorful sausage, Spicy Sausage and Broccoli Pasta is a weeknight dinner winner. The seasoning in the sausage will add further flavor to the oil in the pan, which ultimately acts as a sauce on the pasta and broccoli.

This broccoli and sausage pasta recipe is ideal for busy weeknights or when you don't want to buy a lot of ingredients. 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! You can have Sausage and Broccoli Pasta using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Sausage and Broccoli Pasta

You need 500 g of fresh fusilli or other pasta.
It's 400 g of tenderstem broccoli.
It's 50 g of soft cheese.
Prepare 8 of sausages.
It's 20 g of grated parmesan.
It's 3 cloves of garlic.
It's 1 tsp of fennel seeds.
You need 1 handful of fresh basil.
It's of Black pepper.
It's of Olive oil.

If you like it hot, you can swap the sweet sausage for hot. 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.

Sausage and Broccoli Pasta instructions

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..

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. 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. Orecchiette pasta is an ideal partner for the weighty sausage and broccoli rabe in this recipe.