In a few tablespoons of olive oil, I saute 1 t red pepper flakes for a few seconds before adding 1 t dried crushed rosemary and then one large clove pressed garlic. At the very end I add 1 t dried basil.
I've been adding this to vegetables, tofu, and that sort of thing, but I wanted to make a pasta, so I came up with this Broccoli Fettucini (with no alfredo sauce what so ever). The flavored oil, parma, and sausage are rich enough that this replaces traditional fettucini alfredo quite nicely.
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon flavored olio (from above recipe)
1 package refrigerated fettucini
1 large head of broccoli (fresh please, not the mushy frozen stuff)
1 vegetarian sausage patty per person (I suggest Morningstar, but use your favorite)
a little parmesan cheese. get the good stuff.
Cook the sausage and pasta according to package directions and the olio according to my directions (for this recipe, if you don't have the pepper flakes, pepper works instead). Once the basil is added to the oil, put it 2 T of the pasta cooking water. This will disperse the seasonings more evenly through the pasta. Cut up the broccoli into small florets and cook it in the sausage pan with a lid on until it turns bright green. Also chop up the cooked sausage. It should be about the same size as the florets. Toss the pasta with olio first, then add the parma, and, finally, top with the broccoli and sausage.
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