Hi guys, I'm Laura Vitale and on this episode of Laura in the Kitchen, I want to share with
you my updated pasta with broccoli recipe that is so good, it is the best pasta with
broccoli you'll ever have in your life hands down, this is the only way I've been making
it and I've been making it like this a long time, I just never updated you but now that
we're sort of sprinkling these updated versions of recipes here and there on Laura in the
Kitchen, I could not resist sharing this with you because it's quick, it's easy, it's so
minimal ingredients but maximum flavor type of thing, it's phenomenal.
The list of ingredients is really short and sweet, you'll need pasta, orecchiette here
are really a must because they've got a lot of surface area to get nice and crispy, and
the little cup shape holds them to the broccoli so well.
You need a lot of broccoli florets, you can see that they've been chopped into bite size
pieces.
You need freshly grated parmigiano, olive oil, some garlic, you want it peeled but not
chopped.
Little bit of butter, some salt and that's pretty much it!
I mean it's really easy but I am telling you it is so phenomenal that once you make it
this way you will never make it any other way again.
I've got a large pot with boiling salted water.
Now, depending on how long your pasta takes to cook, just read the instructions on the
package, so let's say this pasta takes 12 minutes to cook, right?
I'm only going to cook this for 6 minutes, after 6 minutes I'm going to add the broccoli,
cook it for 2 more minutes so the pasta altogether is going to cook for about 8 minutes, because
it's going to cook for about 5 to 6 minutes in the skillet, so you're going to cook it
shy of a few minutes and the broccoli goes in, two minutes before the pasta is done,
so add the pasta in and in six minutes we will add the broccoli, and then we will let
both things cook together for about 2 minutes.
Alright now keep in mind that I did add the broccoli in with the pasta, about 6 minutes
in, and I let them cook together for 2 more minutes, my timer is up.
Drained everything and I reserved some of the cooking water.
Now in here, I've got olive oil with some garlic sizzling away, it's getting nice and
golden.
I'm not going to let the garlic - I didn't chop the garlic because I'm going to take
the garlic out eventually, but now stand back because this will splatter.
You're going to take your drained pasta and broccoli and you're going to add that i, and
what you're going to do is you're going to cook this for about 4 or 5 minutes on about
medium right between medium and medium high and you're not going to toss this until you
see that the bottom the pieces of pasta have some good crunchy color and golden brown on
them, you're going to keep doing that until a lot of the pasta has that crispy coating
on it, it is so phenomenal, you cannot even imagine.
I'm not adding any more salt to this because my boiling water was well salted, so my pasta
and my broccoli got their seasoning from the very beginning.
But you want to make sure that it's perfectly seasoned before you add it in here otherwise
you're not going to be able to really sprinkle the salt evenly, so make sure that the water
is well salted so that you don't have to do it here.
I'm going to keep my eye on this, cook it and stir it, let it cook, stir, you're going
to keep doing that until the broccoli cooks into the pasta and it really breaks down a
lot, becomes one with the sauce it's phenomenal, just you trust me.
So this is pretty much what you're looking for, you see a lot of places really crispy
and wonderful and nibbly and crispy perfection, you see that?
That is what you want!
Now obviously, not every piece is going to be that way, you can stand here for ten more
minutes and keep doing the same thing and it will get there but then you don't really
have any texture of pasta, it's too crispy.
So you have to have a good balance of the two and it's perfection.
Now, you take a little bit of the starchy cooking water, it's not going to make the
crispy bits soggy, I promise.
Along with about a tablespoon of good butter.
And a good grating of parm.
And this is your sauce, it is so good, it is so easy and so simple and I'm telling you
it's the best pasta with broccoli recipe on the face of the planet.
I also took out the garlic, they did their job when they flavored the oil so Idon't really
need it for anything else.
But that to me looks money.
I'm going to just turn this off, look at this.
Look how gorgeous.
You see how the broccoli has become the sauce?
That's what you want my friend!
That is what you want!
You want that crispy pasta, you want the broccoli to just become the sauce with the cheese it
is the best broccoli pasta ever and I'm just going to take some for myself.
Those crispy bits right there going to be for me.
I'll deal with the rest later.
Yes!
Mmm!
You hear the crunch?
Look at that!
That is heaven on earth inside my mouth!
That's a broccoli and pasta recipe that I want, this is the kind that I love and I think
that you will too.
Go to LauraintheKitchen.com, get the recipe, I hope you have enjoyed spending time with
me and I'll see you next time.
Bye!