One Pan Orecchiette Pasta
Pasta and Noodles Pasta by Shape
Every year when it's time to go back to school I get inundated with requests from students to post recipes that are super-easy, cost pennies, and require a bare minimum of kitchen equipment. This delicious orecchiette pasta recipe only has a handful of ingredients, is very cheap to make, and most importantly: only uses one pan or pot for the entire procedure.
Servings per recipe: 2
Calories per serving: 662
Preparation time: 15m
Total cooking time: 40m
Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 onion, diced
- salt to taste
- 8 ounces spicy Italian sausages, casings removed
- 3 1/2 cups low-sodium chicken broth, divided, or as needed
- 1 1/4 cups orecchiette pasta, or more to taste
- 1/2 cup roughly chopped arugula, or to taste
- 1/4 cup finely grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, or to taste
Directions:
- 1 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.
- 2 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.
- 3 Stir arugula into pasta-sausage mixture until arugula wilts. Ladle pasta into bowls and dust with Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.
Nutrion facts:
Total Fat | 39.1g | 60% |
Saturated Fat | 12.0g | |
Cholesterol | 60mg | 20% |
Sodium | 1360mg | 54% |
Potassium | 305mg | 9% |
Total Carbohydrates | 46.2g | 15% |
Dietary Fiber | 2.5g | 10% |
Protein | 31.2g | 62% |
Sugars | 4g | |
Vitamin A | 188IU | |
Vitamin C | 3mg | |
Calcium | 142mg | |
Iron | 1mg | |
Thiamin | 0mg | |
Niacin | 6mg | |
Vitamin B6 | 0mg | |
Magnesium | 23mg | |
Folate | 15mcg |