The Silver Spoon – Spaghetti with Broccoli
The recipe book that every Italian home has (or should have) – Silver Spoon
We cooked Spaghetti with Broccoli as the main for our weekly dinner party and it was so, so, good!
Spaghetti with Broccoli
- 500g of broccoli
- 3 tables spoons of olive oil
- 25g of butter
- 1 onion, chopped
- 4 tablespoons of double cream
- 350g spaghetti
- 25g Parmesan cheese, freshly grated.
- salt and pepper
- Parboil the broccoli in salted water for 10 minutes.
- Heat the oil and butter in frying pan.
- Add the onion and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes.
- Drain the broccoli, add to the skillet and mix well
- Stir in the cream and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Transfer the mixture to a food processor and process to a puree.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Meanwhile, cook the spaghetti in a large pan of salted, boiling water until al dente, then drain, toss with broccoli and cream mixture.
- Sprinkle with parmesan and serve.
excellent the recipe.. dinner was fantatisc and i am of a mind to make this at home
and then hunt down that book cause it looks pretty good.
*beams*
I LOVE the idea of being organised enough to have a “weekly dinner party” … cooking I can do, but getting it together each and every week to have people round …. it makes my head hurt just thinking about it!
Joanna
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Joanna – We do most of the cooking the night before :-)
We had this as a course at the Vin Alto yesterday. It really is a great pasta dish, i loved it as did everyone else. Well worth making and enjoying.