How to Make Delicious Italian Sausage with Orecchiette

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Italian Sausage with Orecchiette. Orecchiette Pasta with Sausage and Broccoli Rabe uses chicken sausage in place of pork and a whole lot of garlic! This lightened up version will not disappoint!! The concave orecchiette cradle the bits of sausage and broccoli nicely.

Italian Sausage with Orecchiette My only problem was that some of the orecchiette stuck together. I don't cook this type of pasta often, so. Meanwhile, cook the pasta in plenty of boiling salted water until al dente. You can cook Italian Sausage with Orecchiette using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Italian Sausage with Orecchiette

  1. It's 1 lb. of bulk Italian sausage (or removed from casing).
  2. It's 3-4 cloves of garlic, crushed.
  3. Prepare 1 TBS. of olive oil.
  4. Prepare 1 cup of frozen peas and carrots.
  5. You need 1/2-3/4 lb. of Orecchiette pasta.
  6. It's 1 cup of grated Parmesan or Locatelli cheese.
  7. You need 5 of fresh basil leaves, torn.
  8. You need 1 TBS. of lemon juice.
  9. It's 1/2 cup of pasta water.
  10. It's 1 tsp. of lemon zest.

In one, cook Italian sausage in olive oil and garlic; in the other, cook—but do not overcook—broccoli rabe with olive oil, garlic, lemon juice, and butter. Mix the sausage and the greens with cooked orecchiette. Use hot Italian sausages for a bit of kick, or stick with mild sausages and serve red chile flakes on the side so people can sprinkle on exactly as much as they want. The whole combination of orecchiette with greens and sausage and grated Parmigiano is so classic and so wonderful.

Italian Sausage with Orecchiette instructions

  1. Sauté sausage and crushed garlic in olive oil on med-hi heat until browned, about 5-6 minutes..
  2. Meanwhile, in a separate pot, cook the pasta according to package directions..
  3. Add peas and carrots to the sausage and continue sautéing on med-hi heat for another 2-3 minutes..
  4. Once pasta is al dente, add the remaining ingredients to the sausage and serve..
  5. Buon appetito! 🇮🇹.

Anyway, I am excited to share with you this recipe for orecchiette with sausage and greens. The inspiration for this dish came from this Nigella Lawson recipe, which I spotted in an. Orecchiette with broccoli rabe and sausage is one of those classic Italian pasta dishes. Not that I grew up anything like it—I can't imagine my younger self dealing well with the notoriously bitter vegetable. But after years of drinking Negronis, I've grown to love the sensation, just so long as it is.