Best Orecchiette With Mustard Greens And Sausage Recipes

ORECCHIETTE WITH SAUSAGE AND GREENS

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of water to boil.
• Meanwhile remove sausge from it's casing. Heat a small amount of olive oil in a large saute pan over medium heat and cook the sausage until browned and cooked through.Transfer cooked sausauge to a large bowl.
• In the same pan add a tablespoon of olive oil and turn heat to high. Once the oil is hot, add half the greens. Let the greens sit for a minute undisturbed.
• Season with a pinch of kosher salt and crushed red pepper flakes to taste. Add half the garlic.
• Bein to toss the greens around until they start wilting. Once wilted transfer to the large bowl.
• Repeat with the remaining greens and transfer the greens to the bowl.
• Don't wash the pan yet.
• Cook the pasta in salted water. Reserve a cup of the pasta water.
• In the same saute pan add half the reserved cooking liquid and add the 1 tablespoon of butter. Let simmer until reduced slightly.
• Add the pasta to the large bowl with the sausage and greens.
• Pour the cooking liquid-butter mixture over top.
• Add the cheese and stir with a large spoon.
• Add more cooking liquid if necessary.
• Dish out the pasta topping with pepper and more parmesan cheese.

ONE PAN ORECCHIETTE PASTA

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large, deep skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir onion with a pinch of salt in hot oil until onion is soft and golden, 5 to 7 minutes. Stir sausage into onions; cook and stir until sausage is broken up and browned, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Pour 1 1/2 cups chicken broth into sausage mixture and bring to a boil while scraping the browned bits of food off of the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon. Add orecchiette pasta; cook and stir pasta in hot broth, adding remaining broth when liquid is absorbed, until pasta is cooked through and most of the broth is absorbed, about 15 minutes.
• Stir arugula into pasta-sausage mixture until arugula wilts. Ladle pasta into bowls and dust with Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.