How to Prepare Speedy Broccoli Pasta

Broccoli Pasta.

You can have Broccoli Pasta using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Broccoli Pasta

1. Prepare 300 grams of pasta (fusilli is good, i used penne).
2. Prepare 3 piece of smoked streaky bacon.
3. You need 1 of broccoli head.
4. It's 3 of anchovy fillets.
5. You need 2 clove of garlic.
6. It's 1 1/2 tbsp of double cream.
7. It's 1 pinch of salt.
8. You need 1 pinch of black pepper.
9. It's 1 tbsp of olive oil, extra virgin.
10. It's 1 tbsp of olive oil.
11. It's 1 1/2 tbsp of double cream.

Broccoli Pasta instructions

1. Bring a large, heavily salted pan of water to a rolling boil.
2. Chop the head of broccoli into large chunks. Peel the stalk with a speed peeler and chop this too (into slices).
3. Add the broccoli to the water and set a timer for 4 minutes.
4. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan and add the (chopped bacon).
5. Fry until the timer beeps. Add 1 more minute to the timer and add the garlic and anchovies to the bacon.
6. Cook for the remaining minute then using a slotted spoon transfer the broccoli to the frying pan..
7. Add the pasta to the water and cook for 2 mins less than the lowest time shown on the packet.
8. Meanwhile cook the broccoli in the pan, tossing and breaking it up so that it becomes like a sauce. Add a ladle or more of pasta water to allow help this.
9. Just before the pasta time is up, add the cream and cook together well with the broccoli.
10. When the pasta is 2 minutes from cooked, add to the pan and cook with the sauce to your desired level of firmness, add plenty of pasta water to help keep the pasta light and loose. It can drink a lot!.
11. Add the extra virgin olive oil, mix together and serve.