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Baked pasta with sausage meatballs, broccoli and bechamel

Vincenzo's Plate · ♥ 421 likes · 29.3K views · 5 min video

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Ingredients
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  • 1 packet pasta
  • 4 whole Italian sausages
Peel the skin off the sausages and roll the meat into small balls.
  • 2 whole broccoli
  • water
Cut the broccoli into small pieces and boil in water for about 15 minutes.
  • 50 g butter
  • 50 g flour
  • 500 ml milk
Melt the butter, add the flour, then add the milk a little at a time, stirring well.
Making the bechamel
Add a little nutmeg and keep going until the sauce is creamy.
  • nutmeg
  • extra virgin olive oil
Heat olive oil in the saucepan, flavour it with rosemary leaves, then remove the rosemary.
  • rosemary leaves
Add the boiled broccoli to the saucepan, cook a couple of minutes, and squash with a wooden spoon until mushy.
Salt the water with rock salt and boil the pasta.
  • rock salt
After about five minutes, add the sausage meatballs to the broccoli and cook until a little brown; they finish cooking in the oven.
Return the cooked pasta to the pan and mix very well with the broccoli and meatballs.
Mixing pasta with sausage, broccoli and bechamel
Mix in bechamel a little at a time, a couple of times.
  • fresh mozzarella cheese
Layer pasta, bechamel and fresh mozzarella, then another layer of pasta spread everywhere.
Layering with mozzarella and parmesan
  • parmesan cheese
Top with more mozzarella, bechamel and parmesan.
Bake about 15 minutes at 220C until the top is crispy and the bottom moist.