Broccoli and Anchovy Pasta

I admit that broccoli is not my all time favorite vegetable. Yet, it seems that I buy broccoli often, and seek for new ways to use it.

Apparently, Italians sometimes make pasta sauce with broccoli in it. This is one of Daniele's traditional recipes---simple, easy, and to the point.

Broccoli and Anchovy Pasta
Broccoli
3-5 anchovies
small onion
olive oil
salt
red pepper flakes
garlic clove
cooking wine

To get started making your sauce, boil the broccoli for about five minutes in order to soften. Remove the broccoli from the water and cut into small pieces. You can re-use the same water in which you cooked the broccoli to cook the pasta.

In a separate pan, heat up some olive oil and a garlic clove. Cut up the onion and saute for approximately five minutes. Add 3-5 anchovies and small pieces of broccoli, along with a bit of cooking wine. Add salt and red pepper flakes to taste and cook for 10 more minutes. If you want to try a variation to this recipe, you could also add fresh tomatoes to the sauce. We did use a portion of a tomato in the recipe below, and, in fact, we did not use an onion because the last one had gone bad.

I don't think I need to explain to you how to cook the pasta, however, again I suggest using the same water that you cooked the broccoli in.