Weeknight Sausage and Broccoli Bowls
Weeknights are really all about a quick recipe, aren’t they? One way I’ve been trying to distinguish between the weekdays and weekends during quarantine (’cause they all just run together, eh?) is by not cooking too many project recipes during the week. I’ve always saved fancier, more complicated dishes for entertaining people or for just the two of us on the weekends.
So now, during quarantine, I’m finding it even more important to have some quick meals on hand. Seriously, even having this blog, I’ve never, ever cooked this much in my entire life. (PS we order pizza every Friday from a different local pizza shop each week, trying to support our local businesses as much as we can!)
These broccoli sausage bowls are a standard in my weekly rotation, and ingredients I always have on hand because you can do so, so much with them! You could even take these ingredients and plop some pasta in the dish and toss it with pesto or just butter and garlic! You could throw some broth on top of it and call it soup, too.
I love serving these bowls with ricotta, I love the creaminess it brings to the dish and sort of elevates it a little (like, half a notch?). Then, I top it with some crispy panko crumbles for extra crunch and a squeeze of lemon for brightness. We need a little brightness now!
The crunchy topping is totally optional, especially if you don’t have panko crumbs hanging around. It’s highly recommended though! Really recommend it for any dish you want to dress up a little bit.
I served these bowls with chive scallion garlic knots this week – recipe for those coming soon! You can serve over pasta, with a side of garlic bread or just plain bread, or these bowls can just be as themselves!
The recipe is intended for frozen broccoli (hey quarantine), but in the notes you’ll find instructions for how to make these bowls with fresh broccoli. And I promise, the recipe looks scarier than it is. The ingredients are very simple, and you don’t need to have any special skills to get through the recipe, there’s just three parts to it:
- Cooking the sausage
- Roasting the broccoli (while the sausage and panko crumb topping cooks)
- Panko crumb topping
