Pasta With Broccoli Italian Sausage

This recipe is quick, easy & simply delicious. Be careful, you may eat more than you should.

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.

Clean broccoli & separate florets from the stems.

Remove the tough peel from the stems & cut into cubes.

Place in steamer & steam to desired tenderness.

Reserve the broccoli water.

Remove the casings from the sausage.

Heat the olive oil to medium high and brown the sausage flattening & chopping until all is browned.

Add garlic , fennel seed & red pepper flakes.

Cook until garlic is pale brown.

Remove from the heat.

Add steamed broccoli & 1 / 2 cup of the broccoli water to the sausage.

Add the pasta to the boiling water and cook according to package directions.

Scoop out the pasta & add to the sausage & broccoli along with 1 / 2 cup of the pasta water.

Reheat the sausage , broccoli & pasta & stir until the water mostly boils away & forms a nice sauce.

1 1 / 2 to 2 minutes.

If too dry add more water from pasta & / or broccoli.

Grate 1 / 2 ounce of pecorino romano cheese over pasta reserving the remaing cheese for tableside.

broccoli, sweet italian sausage, olive oil, garlic cloves, red pepper flakes, fennel seed, fusilli, salt & pepper, pecorino romano cheese