Two One Dish Pastas--One Meatless and one Meaty Recipe

Ingredients

• Days after my first foray into One Dish Pasta, I was keen on
• creating a dish featuring one of my favorite of all pastas. Orecchiette means
• ‘little ear’ in Italian. If you make
• your own, you would use your thumb to create the little bowl that characterizes
• the pasta. The advantage of their shape
• is that these bowls are excellent for catching the sauce in so, unlike
• spaghetti or fettucine, they actually hold the sauce rather than just being
• coated with it. The recipe varies from
• the first One Dish Pasta in that the sausage and onion is cooked in the dish
• for about 15 minutes before the Orechiette is added. The cooking liquid is not water this time,
• it’s chicken stock and it’s added in as needed.
• Finally, once the pasta is cooked, the arugula is mixed in and wilts
• into the mixture. I chose to add Burrata
• to the finished pasta bowls. This may be
• too rich for your recent college grad, but if he or she wants to impress, this
• meltingly creamy cheese will do the trick. If budgetary concerns overrule the
• Burrata, a handful of Parmigiano will stand in perfectly well. Here are the recipes:
• Recipe for One Dish Spaghetti with Tomatoes and Onions
• Serves 4. Prep Time: 15 mins Total Time: 20 mins.
• 12 ounces spaghetti">linguine or spaghetti
• 12 ounces cherry or grape tomatoes, halved or quartered if large
• 1 onion, thinly sliced (about 2 cups)
• 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
• 1/2 teaspoon red-pepper flakes
• 2 sprigs basil, plus torn leaves for garnish
• 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for serving
• Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
• Freshly grated Parmesan cheese, for serving
• 1. Combine pasta, tomatoes, onion, garlic, red-pepper flakes, basil,
• oil, 2 teaspoons salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, and water in a large straight-sided
• 3 ½ cups Chicken Broth, divided or as needed
• 2 ½ cups Orecchiette Pasta or to taste
• 1 cup Baby Arugula or to taste
• 3. Pour 1 ½ cups of chicken broth into the sausage mixture and bring to
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