My husband loved this dish. It was very easy. Next time I won't boil the Broccoli Rabe for the whole 12 minutes. It seemed to get a little soggy. Next time I will only boil for 8 minutes.
This was excellent. I made only a few changes to turn it into a pasta dish and it was the best supper we've had recently. I cooked radiatore pasta in salted water saved the water for cooking the broccoli rabe and set the pasta aside. I used hot ground Italian sausage and added a few teaspoons of fennel seed. I followed the rest of the directions as written and tossed the broccoli rabe and sausage with the pasta right before serving. My whole family raved from my husband down to my 2-year-old son. Yum!
I modified this recipe to: rough chopped rabini stems and cooked for 6 minutes seperately from the green leafy part. I then rough chopped the green leafy part and blached in hot water. I thoroughly drained the rabini before adding into oil mixture. The result was a better looking dish.
You only need to blanch the Rabe for 2 minutes in salted water. Plunge in cold water and drain and squeeze most of the water out befor adding to skillit. The Rabe will not be mushy or watery when you do this
One more thing-broccoli rabe shrinks like crazy so you may want to double or triple the amount. If you have good eaters figure one bunch of cooked rabe per person trust me it shrinks to nothing.
I adapted this and also added cut up chicken which I cooked with the sausage. I had this at a restaurant and it is fabulous!
With two bunches of rabe and although only boiled for 8 minutes still a mushy mess. Good flavor although chard or kale would probably hold up better. Will try again with no boiling but sauteing instead.
This was a great recipe idea. I too served it with pasta long fusilli. I reserved all of the broccoli liquid(3 bunches) and served it at the end in a bowl with the pasta because the first time i made it i thought it was too dry when using pasta. I then topped it with toasted bread crumbs. I added 5 anchovies along with the garlic to give it even more flavor. I omitted the lemon from the pan and served lemon wedges on the table for my family to use as much or as little as they wanted.
The recipe is good. The flavour is excellent...but I live in Mexico and we dont have lemon so I always use lime. The next time i will defintely cut the amount of lemon in half. Also had to use chorizo for the sausage which turned out excellent. I served over bowtie pasta. even the kids liked it...but definitely have to cut the lemon in half
It was horrible! Too many cloves of garlic and too much lemon juice. And the amount of time to boil the brocolli is too long. It made the brocolli soggy.
