ingredients:
italian sausage
broccoli
medium pasta shells (or other pasta)
basil pesto
salt
olive oil
pepper
red crushed pepper flakes
-
Begin boiling
water
for the pasta. You can addolive oil
andsalt
to taste. -
As the water is boiling you can begin breaking apart the
broccoli
heads to use for later. -
Once the water is boiling add your
pasta
. -
As the pasta boils you can prepare the
italian sausage
by either rolling small balls or just breaking it up in to a sort ofground sausage
. -
Pour the
broccoli
into a pan (you can addolive oil
to it) and a little bit of water. Cover the pan with a lid. Once you see the broccoli darkening you are done. -
By this time the Pasta should be done. Take a half cup of the
pasta water
. Drain the pasta and pour back into the pot used for boiling. You can add the half cup of water now. -
You can pour your container of
basil pesto
into thepasta pot
and start mixing. Once satisfied pout in the broccoli and start mixing. -
In a pan pour a small amount of
olive oil
, add your preparedsausage
and cover the pan with a lid. You are done once thesausage
is browned. -
Now you can mix in the sausage into the pot and season with pepper and red crushed peppers.