Sausage and Vegetable Linguine

This is such a quick and easy recipe, I make a variation of this whenever my budget and enthusiasm are running low, and when I want some healthy comfort food. I always love pasta dishes that don't need a shop bought sauce added to them; this is one of those, where the ingredients just make their own lovely sauce once cooked down with a little water. 

For 1 hungry person, you will need: 

2 good quality sausages- herb and garlic would be perfect | dried linguine for 1 | a mix of chopped red pepper, tomato, mushroom and 1 crushed garlic clove | a few broccoli florets | salt/pepper to season | a little parmesan or other hard cheese 

1 | First fry your sausages until they are just brown all over. Remove, slice down the middle and cut into bitesize pieces. It doesn't matter if they are slightly raw inside. Keep to one side.

2| Add your vegetable mix (save the broccoli) into the pan and stir. If the pan is really hot and it is clearly catching, add a good tablespoon of water and stir away. 

3| Meanwhile add your pasta to boiling, salted water, shortly followed by your broccoli florets (stem part first, bushy part above water).

4 | Add your sausage bites to the vegetable mix as it cooks away. Keep the heat hot, just slowly adding a small amount of water as it bubbles away. You don't want a runny puddle, but rather just enough to make a light silky coating. You will see what I mean as it cooks away. 

5 | When the pasta is al dente (normally between 7-10 minutes) drain and add straight to your sausages and other vegetables, stirring to coat the pasta in the sauce. Add a generous helping of parmesan shavings (for this I use a vegetable peeler) and give a quick stir before eating. 

L