For A Change Try Sausage and Pasta - Another Kid Friendly Meal

The Kids were coming over and I remembered that, previously, I had made a Gordon Ramsay Pasta dish, using Sausage meat... so I looked it up in the cook book
Turns out, the recipe I was thinking of, was actually a rice dish
The kids wanted Pasta, so I devised this dish, inspired by Gordon (I feel I can call him Gordon)
It is so different from the original I think I can call this mine

2 tablespoons Olive oil
Onion peeled and chopped
Sea salt and freshly Ground Black Pepper
Red pepper chopped
Sausages from the famous Westmere Butcher
Beef, Garlic, Parsley and Parmesan, perfect
1 1/2 sausages per person will be enough

White wine to deglaze
2 cups chicken stock
Pasta, Farfalle, cooked to manufacturers instructions

2 medium fresh tomato chopped

1 head of Broccoli
Olive oil
2 cloves of Garlic peeled and finely chopped
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Zest of 1 Lemon

Spring onions to garnish and or chives
Chopped parsley

Grated Parmesan
Method
Place olive oil into a pan, heat to medium heat
Add chopped onions
Saute till soft
Add chopped red pepper and sauté till soft
Season with S & P

Meanwhile remove sausage meat from skins and break up to resemble small meatballs

Add to pan, I actually used a second pan to brown the sausage, stop it from stewing
plus you get a better flavour

Add all the cooked sausage meat to the pan
Deglaze the sausage pan, with a slosh of white wine and tip into the main pan

Add chicken stock
Bring to a simmer and cook gently for about 15 minutes

So the Broccoli
Cut into small florets
Blanch in salted water for about 3-4 minutes
Drain and put into ice water
This will stop it cooking and keep the nice green colour
Drain and out aside

In a large pan, add the olive oil
Throw in the chopped garlic
Season with salt and pepper and the lemon zest
Add the cooked broccoli
Toss well
Set aside

So, cook the pasta
I usually allow 100 gms per person

When it is just cooked
Drain
At this stage,
Add the broccoli and chopped tomato
to the sausage
Toss well
Add pasta
Mix well

Dish up and grate some Parmesan over the top
garnish with some chopped green onion tops or chives and a little chopped parsley

Loved by young and old
Very tasty