Pasta with Broccoli, Spicy Sausage, Parmesan and Fried Sage

Name: Pasta with Broccoli, Spicy Sausage, Parmesan and Fried Sage
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 3 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced; 24 sage leaves; 80 g(2 ½ oz) parmesan; 350 g(11 ⅔ oz) broccoli, trimmed and cut into florets; 2 red onions, peeled and sliced; 80 ml(2 ½ fl oz) olive oil; oil for frying; 400 g(14 oz) pasta; 180 ml(6 fl oz) boiling water; 300 g(10 ½ oz) spicy sausages, sliced (try chorizo, or a paprika bratwurst); 1 teaspoon salt

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A World in My Kitchen

By Peter Gordon

Published 2003

About

Any pasta works with this recipe as do most greens. I used trompetti pasta and purple sprouting broccoli, but shredded silverbeet or Swiss chard, regular broccoli or pak choy would work just as well, although you may need to adjust the cooking time.

Ingredients

400 g(14 oz) pasta
80 ml(2 ½ fl

Main course
Pasta

Method

Bring a large saucepan of salted water to the boil, add pasta, stir, then boil uncovered until almost cooked (for dried pasta this will be about 8 minutes). Drain.

Meanwhile, heat olive oil in a large pan and fry onions and garlic over a high heat until they begin to caramelise. Add sausage slices and half the sage leaves and gently stir until sausage is partly cooked. Add broccoli, sal