Hello lovely people, I'm going to show you a brand new recipe, from my brand new book, which is Super Food Family Classics
It's all about the food that you love, but made really healthy
were going to do a gorgeous pasta, my sausage and broccoli pasta
Very simple, straight forward, and this is something my family absolutely love
First up, we've got a pan on, a casserole style pan. We've got a pan of boiling water on, we have got some gorgeous chipolatas, you can use any sausages that you want
a new technique here, boil it for a few minutes, and its going to set the shape. I'm going to slice it up into little disks
it means I can distribute the sausage more evenly
In the water at the same time, this humble friend here
broccoli, the boring stalk that everyone throws away, trim the woody end off
and this will go into the pan of boiling water with my 2 chillis, now you can use 1 or 2 chillis
all chillis have different heat so you can kind of duck and dive as you see fit. That's just going to cook away for a couple of minutes
it'll just soften up nicely. Were going to have a little bit of olive oil in a pan
a tablespoon goes in
fennel seeds, a nice heaped tea spoon goes in. It's going to be delicious
Garlic, so I'm going to finely slice the garlic up, put that to one side
We'll slice 2 onions up
I'm going to take the sausage out now, and you can see
It's pale but it's firmed up nicely
and then I can just slice this up
So in it goes
Slice up the stalks into little chunks, they're absolutely delicious
put in with the stalks, slice up your chillis, I'm going to add half of them here
you can kind of pimp it up a little bit later. Look at those colours, gorgeous, fennel seeds, the fat's now coming out of the sausage
and then were going to go in with the garlic, and after about a minute
of the garlic being in, then we'll go in with the onions, so good for you, and they'll sweeten up really really nicely
it's the kind of dish that loads of people love, my family absolutely love it, and even better we got 3 of our 5 fruit and veg a day in this one dish
the book is full of things that are really good for you, so, you know, we've got all sorts of things from Vitamin K
in the broccoli, Vitamin C. Break off little florettes, you know you've got loads more Vitamin C
in the chillis. So I'm going to use a herb guys, oregano, that I've got fresh
absolutely all of us have got dried, feel free to use it
but it's always nice to use the fresh stuff
So about half a little bunch is perfect, keep it on the medium heat and over 15 minutes you're going to develop amazing flavour
everything softening up, look at the colours. Put in a nice little splash of vinegar
And then you just want to cook that vinegar away so you're left with the fragrance and nice little tartness which is really really good with the pork and the tomatoes
And then in with the tinned tomatoes, we're going to use plum tomatoes put about half a tin
of water in as well, just to clean the tin out
I'm going to turn the temperature down a little bit, and I'll break up the tomatoes, just to help them along a little bit
rich, tomato, sausage and broccoli sauce. We'll let that simmer for about 15 minutes
I'm going to put the pasta in, I'm going to use wholewheat tagliatelle, wholewheat is a brilliant trade up from regular pasta
OK, so it's going to be digested slower, you know, its more fibre.
So I'm going to put 300 grams of pasta into some salted boiling water and then you've got that nice harmony of the pasta cooking as that simmers, it smells incredible
So let's check the pasta
Pasta's nearly there, so I'm going to go in
with the broccoli, just for 2 minutes right
We want to keep it full of colour, retain as much of the nutrient content as possible
So we'll stir that through, I can put that lid back on if I want
Look at this sauce, absolutely incredible
I'm going to turn the sauce off now, you can see its blipping away
Grate some Parmesan, just 30 grams, Parmesan has that amazing ability to kind of have that beautiful flavour, seasoning but also join all the flavours up together
then we're going to go in with our pasta and broccoli
Give it a nice little toss up like this
This is absolute family classic, whether it's for little kids, friends.
I'm just going to finish it with a few strokes of Parmesan
A lovely array of all the food groups that your body needs
It's also incredibly delicious and fun to make
and that's the whole point of this book. So guys enjoy the book, enjoy the dish. Until next time, take care