Dinner · 25 min · Amounts not specified
Broccoli sausage pasta
Use the broccoli stem. It is not scrap.
The sheet · 2 bowls · 25 min
easyWhy tonight. Use the broccoli stem. It is not scrap.
What it needs
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- pasta
- broccoli
- sausage
- garlic
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: parmesan.
Method
- Sausage out of its skins, browned in craggy pieces and left alone to catch color before it is moved.
- Broccoli into the same pan with a splash of pasta water and a lid, two minutes, then uncovered and pushed against the pan until it breaks down.
- Broken-down broccoli is the sauce here. Neat florets in a bowl of pasta are a side dish that got lost.
- Garlic at the end, pasta water to loosen, parmesan off the heat.
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Published minimums for what is in this
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- EmulsionsHow to Make Classic Pasta Carbonara | Kenji's Cooking ShowJ. Kenji López-AltStarchy pasta water binding egg and cheese into sauce instead of into scrambled egg.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Produce prepHow To Mince GarlicAmerica's Test KitchenSmashing and mincing a clove down to something that cooks evenly instead of burning in pieces.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Roasting vegetablesFor the Best Roasted Vegetables, Start with Steam | Techniquely with Lan LamAmerica's Test KitchenSteam first, then roast. It solves the usual problem of browned outside and raw in the middle.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- pasta
- The sauce finishes on the pasta, not the other way around.
- broccoli
- The stalk is better than the florets and most people throw it away.
- sausage
- Seasoned fat and meat that arrives pre-flavored, so it does double duty as protein and as the base a dish is built on.
- garlic
- Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
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