Broccoli Rabe and Sausage Pasta.

You can have Broccoli Rabe and Sausage Pasta using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Broccoli Rabe and Sausage Pasta

1. Prepare of olive oil.
2. You need of salt and pepper.
3. Prepare of gloves garlic chopped.
4. It's of spicy Italian sausage removed from casing.
5. You need of bunched broccoli rabe chopped into one inch pieces.
6. Prepare of shredded provolone.
7. Prepare of grated parmesan cheese.
8. Prepare of short pasta (orecchiette works best).
9. You need of Toasted breadcrumbs.

Broccoli Rabe and Sausage Pasta step by step

1. Boil pasta in large pot (make sure to heavily salt the pasta water). Reserve some of the pasta water prior to draining..
2. Heat 2 tablespoons oil in separate pot on medium heat. Add sausage and mash into crumbles. Cook sausage until slightly browned.
3. Remove pot from heat. Using a slotted spoon, remove sausage from pan leaving the oil. Set sausage aside.
4. Return pot to heat and add one tablespoon of oil. Add garlic and saute garlic until golden brown..
5. Stir broccoli rabe, salt, and pepper into pot to combine with garlic and oil.
6. Place lid on pot and allow broccoli rabe to steam for about 8-10 min depending on how tender you like it.
7. Once broccoli rabe is cooked, reduce heat to low and mix in sausage and cheese.
8. Add cooked pasta to pot and combine. If dry, add some of the reserved pasta water.
9. Top individual portions with toasted bread crumbs and a drizzle of olive oil.