Description
Simple, quick, inexpensive, and a little spicy. Delicious!!!
Ingredients
- 8 ounces whole wheat rotini pasta
- 3 bunches broccoli rabe, trimmed
- 4 (4 ounce) links hot Italian sausage, cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1 tablespoon sausage drippings
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
- ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 teaspoon olive oil, or to taste
Instructions
- Fill a large pot with lightly salted water and bring to a rolling boil over high heat. Once the water is boiling
- stir in the rotini
- and return to a boil. Cook uncovered
- stirring occasionally
- until the pasta has cooked through
- but is still firm to the bite
- about 6 minutes. Drain well in a colander set in the sink.
- While the pasta is cooking
- place a steamer insert into a saucepan
- and fill with water to just below the bottom of the steamer. Cover
- and bring the water to a boil over high heat. Add the broccoli rabe
- recover
- and steam until just tender
- about 2 minutes depending on thickness.
- At the same time
- place the Italian sausage into a large skillet over medium heat
- and cook until browned and no longer pink inside
- about 5 minutes. Remove sausage from pan and set aside; drain excess grease
- leaving about 1 tablespoon of sausage drippings in the pan. Sprinkle in the garlic
- and cook until it starts to brown
- about 1 minute.
- Stir in 1/2 of the broccoli rabe. Cook and stir until the rabe has wilted
- then add remaining rabe and diced tomatoes. Cook until rabe is tender
- about 5 minutes; sprinkle with salt and black pepper.
- Return sausage to the skillet
- and cook just until the meat is hot; sprinkle with Parmesan cheese
- crushed red pepper flakes
- and a drizzle of olive oil. Serve over hot rotini.
Servings: 4