Pasta with broccoli


Time: 15 mins
Acknowledgements: This is an attempt to recreate one of the many delicious dishes served at Ivo Olive's Café de l'Avenir in Lausanne, the best pasta restaurant in the world.

Ingredients per person:
3 oz pasta (preferably De Cecco - casareccia is the preferred shape)
1/2 to 1 head of broccoli, cut up (including stalks)
1-2 cloves garlic, crushed
olive oil and grated parmesan

1. Cook the pasta with plenty of salt.
2. 5 mins before the pasta is ready, add broccoli bits.
3. Set aside 1 cup of pasta water. DON'T FORGET THIS!!
4. Drain pasta and broccoli.
5. In the pasta pan, cook the crushed garlic briefly in olive oil. Add pasta and broccoli.
6. Stir until thoroughly mixed in and heated through. Add a couple of spoonsful of parmesan and some black pepper. Check for salt and add enough of the reserved cooking water to make it nice and moist.
7. Serve with more parmesan on top.
 
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