Linguini with broccoli and spices

Also in the weekend I made some good food of course, on saturday we had dinner at our friends house, very good tomato soup and quiche, specially the quiche was very good, I have to try that one soon. On sunday then I decided to make some pasta with broccoli again, but in different way. Broccoli has a lot of vitamins and since it was almost not cooked we got them all ;-)

I think I didn't mention earlier, my recipes are always for 3 people, since we are 3 at home. The ingredients I used were:

• Good quality linguini (I had all'uovo, more tasteful)
• Butter and olive oil
• Pancetta in small pieces
• 2 chopped shallots
• Garlic (I used 3 cloves, but you might want less or more)
• Half spanish pepper
• Broccoli
• Grated pecorino
• White wine
• Some fresh chopped basil
• Some fresh chopped parsley
• Grated parmesan

Cook the linguini in water with some salt following the instructions of the package, when is ready just leave the pasta in the water to rest for a while.

In another pan warm up some butter and some olive oil and bake the pancetta, then add the shallots, spanish pepper and the garlic, bake for a few minutes, then add the broccoli and bake for about 10 minutes, add the pecorino and 1 glass of the cooking water from the pasta and a bit of white wine. Cook for another 5 to 10 minutes, until the sauce is a bit thicker. After that add the linguini (without the water of course) to the pan and mix all well, with the basil and parsley.

This meal is also very good with some almonds and self made croutons. You just need to roast in a 180 degrees preheated oven for about 7 minutes some almonds, when they are ready chopped them and keep a side. Then in a 200 degrees preheated oven roast some bread that is cut in small pieces for about 6 minutes. Add the bread to the almonds, sprinkle with some extra verge olive oil and fresh thyme leaves, mix all well.

Serve the linguini with parmesan and the almonds/croutons. A very good and healthy pasta!