Pasta Casarecce with Broccoli and Bacon
A delicious and simple recipe made with broccoli and bacon that turns into a creamy and delicious sauce.
Ingredients
- 1 head Broccoli
- 4 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 6 strips bacon
- ½ whole onion
- 1 ½ tbsp salt
- 500 grams Garofalo Casarecce Pasta
Instructions
Ingredient Prep:
- Cut the head of broccoli into 2 inch pieces to make for easy boiling.
- Slice the bacon into thin 1 inch vertical strips.
- Chop the whole onion into small pieces.
Cooking:
- In a large pot of water, boil the broccoli for 10 minutes to soften the broccoli.
- In a frying pan, add the olive oil, bacon, and onions and cook on a medium high heat.
- Cook until the bacon reaches your preferred style of crunchiness and the onions have wilted and turned golden brown.
- Take the broccoli out of the boiling water and add to the bacon and onions. Make sure to keep the water from the broccoli as we will still need it.
- Add two ladle-fulls of the water from the broccoli to the bacon, onions and broccoli and continue cooking on a medium high heat until the water begins to thicken. Add ½ tbsp of salt.
- Once the water has slightly thickened, remove the broccoli and bacon from the frying pan and place it in a blender and blend until a cream forms.
- Add the cream back to the frying pan and add another ladle of water make a more liquid consistency.
- In the same pot you used to boil the broccoli, add the pasta and boil for 11 minutes. Add 1 tbsp of salt.
- Once the pasta is done, add it to the frying pan and cook with the sauce for another minute or so.
- Once the pasta amalgamates with the sauce, it is ready to go. Buon Appetito!
