Ziti with Mussels and Broccoli

Recipe for ziti with mussels and broccoli

in my garden there are still many broccoli plants, as I need to start working for the new planting season, I obviously have to clear the ground… My broccoli are magical and keep producing… I am very happy about this, obviously, I eat broccoli in all kinds of dishes.

Today I present them to you with ziti and mussels, with an inevitable chili pepper that gives character to the dish.

I used bronze-drawn ziti, a hearty and flavorful pasta with the right rusticity for this preparation. As often happens, it’s a very simple dish accessible to everyone.

  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Cost: Economical
  • Preparation time: 1 Hour
  • Portions: 4
  • Cooking methods: Stovetop
  • Cuisine: Italian
  • Seasonality: All seasons

Ingredients

Few but good

  • 10.5 oz pasta (broken ziti,)
  • 10.5 oz broccoli
  • 7 oz mussels (without shells, I prefer them.)
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1 chili pepper
  • to taste salt
  • to taste olive oil

Tools

You need a pot and a pan to cook the mussels and flavor the pasta at the end of cooking

  • Pots
  • Pans

Steps

Spontaneous preparation, few steps are needed. A complete first course for when we are in a hurry and don’t have time to be in the kitchen but want a good plate of pasta.

In the video recipe everything is explained, but I write the steps for simplification.

Put a pot with water and salt, clean and cut the broccoli into wedges and put them to cook in the water prepared earlier. In a pan, sauté the garlic and chili pepper, add the mussels; I prefer them shelled, cook them without drying out too much. Now you can cook the pasta… Drain and pour into the mussel pan and let it flavor. The ziti are ready to enjoy!

  • What do you think?

And after cooking…

Spontaneous preparation, optionally store in the refrigerator until the next day. It loses freshness afterward.

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Enza Squillacioti

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