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Pan-fried sausages and broccoli

⏱ 50 min🍳 30 min👤 3 pp★★☆☆☆

Often, the solutions to our culinary dilemmas are closer than we think. What shall we make for dinner tonight? What could we make by way of a single one-pan dish which is both tasty and healthy and suitable for the whole family? Today we have a very simple answer to this question which uses only two ingredients, broccoli and sausages. If your family doesn't particularly like vegetables, this recipe also represents a useful trick for making them rather more inviting: cooking the sausage in white wine confers a particularly delicious flavour to the broccoli.

Ingredients

Nutritional values 520 kcal / serving
Protein
38g
Carbohydrates
8g
Fat
38g
Fiber
2g

* approximate values per serving

Information
50 minutes Total time
30 minutes Active time
Serves 3 persons
★★☆☆☆ Medium difficulty

Preparation

Carefully wash a fairly big head of broccoli, remove any leaves and cut the florets into many small pieces. Boil the broccoli until 'al dente', taking care not to cook it completely. In a frying pan, briefly sauté two whole cloves of garlic in some oil, add the chopped sausage and brown them for a few minutes with a little white wine. Now add the cut up broccoli florets, season with some salt and pepper, and continue cooking for another few minutes. Serve hot.

Tips
If you want to try a variation on this dish, you could use other seasonal depending on where you live and the time of year: consider greens, cauliflower, cabbage etc
Trivia
Broccoli has excellent cleansing and purifying qualities: if you don't want to lose these benefits during the boiling process, try steaming the broccoli instead before transferring them to the frying pan with the sausages.

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Additional information

Pan-Fried Sausage with Tomato or Cherry Tomatoes

Sausage is a tasty and economical food that often makes an appearance in our homes and kitchens when we want to prepare a quick main dish. To be honest, if well-structured, the main dish can also transform into a single dish. It just needs to be rich enough. Alternatively, it can be accompanied with some good fresh bread. This way, your pan-fried sausage with tomato will be not only delicious, but particularly filling. That said, a tasty idea is to pair the pan-fried sausage with tomato. We Italians particularly love to see something deliciously red on the plate. Something that also gives the opportunity to do the famous and Italian "scarpetta".

How to Prepare Pan-Fried Sausages with Cherry Tomatoes, Tomato, or Stewed

That said, to prepare the recipe, we recommend gently frying a clove of garlic in a pan with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. Then add the sausage and the cherry tomatoes cut into pieces or the tomato puree. Add salt and a pinch of sugar, then oregano. Leave uncovered. When everything is well caramelized, cover and cook for the necessary time. Do not let the dish dry out too much: it should remain well moist! In fact, the pan-fried sausage with tomato is a stewed sausage. The goodness of this dish lies in the fact that the sauce absorbs the meat flavor as it cooks: a truly rich and tasty meat sauce! 

Pan-Fried Sausage with Potatoes

Another very classic variation of the dish is with potatoes. Pan-fried sausage with potatoes is a decidedly tasty dish that everyone in the family enjoys and appeals to all children. It is a simple dish, however, we invite you to pay attention to one detail: the cooking times of the potatoes in relation to the size (diameter) of the sausages you use. Therefore, the idea is to cut the potatoes into pieces so that they reach cooking at the same time. If you overcook the potatoes, keep in mind that they will end up falling apart. 

Other Ideas for Pan-Fried Sausages

Other ideas besides pan-fried sausage with potatoes are equally tasty, and we mention them here for you: pan-fried sausage with onion, for those who love that delicate aroma of sautéing, with onion and tomato, to create a delicate sauce, and then again with peppers. Here, pan-fried sausage with peppers is truly a delicious and rich pairing, flavorful and always loved by many. If you want to make the dish even richer and more complete, we recommend adding, in this case as well, some potatoes. 

Another idea for pan-fried sausage is to pair it with mushrooms. The pairing of mushrooms and sausage always works, and many pizzerias offer it! So, give it a try: you can even use simple champignon mushrooms. Just add one or two porcini mushrooms, and you’ll elevate the dish even more! 

The last suggestions we have for you are: pan-fried sausage with onions and olives (choose good quality black olives), or onion and cherry tomatoes (plentiful onion), or again, Neapolitan-style stewed sausages, with a bit of onion, sausages flamed in white wine, plenty of peeled tomatoes, and Mediterranean herbs to complete the dish. A delight!