Pasta with Broccolini and Toasted Breadcrumbs
Pasta with Broccolini is a dish from Italy's "cucina povera" or poor kitchen, which focuses on simple seasonal ingredients with great flavor.
Servings: 6 servings
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup breadcrumbs, here's how to make your own breadcrumbs!
- 2 Tbsp olive oil , (plus more for dressing)
- 1 lb dry pasta, any shape you like
- 2 bunches broccolini, trimmed and roughly chopped (about 3 cups loosely packed chopped broccolini)
- 4 anchovy filets, packed in oil
- red pepper flakes, to taste
- salt and black pepper, to taste
optional garnish
- squeeze of lemon
- Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Bring water to a boil in a large pot.
- Meanwhile, in a saucepan over medium heat, toast the 1/2 cup breadcrumbs in 2 Tbsp olive oil until they turn a rich golden brown. The breadcrumbs can burn easily, so don't walk away from the stove, and keep them moving the whole time. Set aside.
- Add your 1 lb dry pasta to the boiling water, and when it's about halfway done cooking (around 5 minutes for most commercial pastas), add the 2 bunches broccolini.
- Continue to cook the broccolini and pasta together until the pasta is al dente and the broccolini is soft but not mushy. Drain, and set aside.
- In the same pan you toasted your breadrumbs in, heat a couple more tablespoons of olive oil. Add the 4 anchovy filets, packed in oil and red pepper flakes, to taste and cook for 1-2 minutes until fragrant.
- Add the pasta to your saucepan to coat in the oil and mix everything together. Do this in two batches if your pan isn't big enough for the whole pan of pasta. Add more olive oil as necessary to dress the pasta generously. Add salt and black pepper, to taste.
- Top with the toasted breadcrumbs and serve immediately. A squeeze of lemon and a shower of parmesan goes nicely with this dish, too!
Nutrition
Calories: 454 kcal · Carbohydrates: 71 g · Protein: 16 g · Fat: 11 g · Saturated Fat: 2 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 2 g · Monounsaturated Fat: 7 g · Cholesterol: 3 mg · Sodium: 111 mg · Potassium: 205 mg · Fiber: 4 g · Sugar: 5 g · Vitamin A: 2090 IU · Vitamin C: 109 mg · Calcium: 123 mg · Iron: 3 mg
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although The View from Great Island attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
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