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Purple sprouting broccoli can be a cheap and cheerful ingredient for early spring dinners and goes brilliantly with anchovy and chilli. When the pasta has nearly finished cooking, transfer a small ladle of the cooking water to the broccoli and continue to cook over a high heat until tender. Add anchovies, chilli and half a cup of pasta cooking water to the pan.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have pink pasta with sprouting broccoli and anchovies using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pink pasta with sprouting broccoli and anchovies:

1. Prepare For the pasta
2. Get 100 g cooked beetroot
3. Get 400 g semolina
4. Take 100 ml water
5. Get For the sauce
6. Prepare Sprouting broccoli
7. Get 2 anchovies fillets
8. Make ready Olive oil
9. Take 2 cloves garlic

Pasta with garlicky anchovies and broccoli rabe. Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Most anchovy pastas are minimalist things, born out of desperation with ingredients from the pantry. The assumption is that if you had anything else in the house, you'd surely cook that instead.

Instructions to make Pink pasta with sprouting broccoli and anchovies:

1. Start by cooking the beetroot in a pot in boiling water and salt. Add the beetroot and leave it to cook for 45 minutes to an hour
2. When the beetroot is ready, peel it cut it into smaller pieces and mix it in a mixer until it becomes a smooth paste. Add water (no more than a cup) to help turning it into a paste.
3. To make the pasta add the beetroot to the semolina and mix well. Then add the water and mix. I made mine in the kitchen aid but if you do it by hand start with the classic vulcano shape for the semolina and add the liquids into it slowly mixing it in taking from the edges. Leave to rest for 30 min
4. In the meantime prepare the sauce. The classic recipe is from Puglia and is meant to be with orecchiette and the broccoli are meant to be boiled. I roasted mine because I think it gives it a nicer flavour but up to you. Cut the broccoli into small pieces and roast on 150 for about 10-15 min
5. When 30 min have passed take the pasta and make into thin rolls of about 1cm in diameter. You can spread your fingers to make the roll more even and faster (as per video below) 1. You can then cut the pasta about 1.5/2cm length, just take a length and stick with it as they will cook at different times otherwise
6. To then make the cavateli shape you’ll need to take each piece of pasta and with 2 fingers press the pasta until it makes a hole and make it curl onto itself (video) 1. Put on water to boiled ready for the pasta with a handful of rock salt. In a frying pan add the garlic thinly minced and some olive oil. Don’t let it burn. Add the anchovies until they melt. It shouldn’t take more than a couple of minutes.
7. When the broccoli are ready add them to the pan with the garlic and anchovies.
8. Cook the pasta in boiling water for about 6-8 minutes. Hand made pasta with semolina tends to stay quite al dente but do taste it to ensure that it’s ready. Add the pasta to the pan and mix well. Serve hot. No cheese should be added when there is fish but in the traditional recipe they used breadcrumbs instead cooked in the oil and anchovies so if you have it you can try that.
9. If you have leftover pasta you can keep it in the fridge in a Tupperware for about 4 days or alternatively you can lay down on a dish separated from each other and put them in the freezer. When they are completely frozen put it into a bag sealed it and keep it in the freezer for about six months. You won’t need to defrost it before cooking just put them in boiling water and cook for 8–10’

Drain the pasta and broccoli and add the anchovy mixture. Six minutes before the pasta is ready, divide the stalk and florets into bite-sized pieces, in two separate piles. Put the broccoli and pasta in a warm serving bowl and toss with the anchovy and garlic oil and, if necessary, a bit of the pasta water to achieve a thick saucy texture. Serve with crusty bread and a salad as a hearty side dish or main course. Enjoy the sweetness of purple sprouting broccoli with a harmonious dressing of anchovies, garlic and lemon juice.

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