This simple pasta dish is all about textures--crisp-tender broccoli rabe, slightly chewy orecchiette, crunchy garlic bread crumbs and creamy ricotta cheese, which melts into a sauce. When buying ...

Delicious, nutritious, and slightly bitter broccoli rabe hardly needs dressing up. Its rich green stems, abundant leaves, and succulent florets are packed with minerals and vitamins. A quick steam and ...

Many Italian restaurants serve some version of orecchiette with rapini (also called broccoli rabe). This famous dish from Puglia combines chewy “little ear” pasta with the leafy crucifer that is an ...

To achieve that perfect meaty ragù texture, hand-dice the vegetables into small, uniform pieces so they cook evenly and keep ...

If you give broccoli (and its cousins broccoli rabe and broccolini) the love and attention they deserve, they become a blank canvas for so many flavors. You can simply roast it with olive oil and salt ...

The popular pairing of sausage and broccoli rabe is often tossed with orecchiette (little pasta ears), olive oil, and garlic. Here the duo is a topping for flatbread. Browned, crumbled sausage and ...

Broccoli rabe may not be in your cooking repertoire yet — but it should be. Also known as rapini, the pleasantly bitter vegetable makes a bold side dish when seasoned with garlic and chile flakes, and ...

Instructions: Place sausage and ½ cup water in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes; drain. Cut sausage into ¹/3-inch-thick slices. Heat olive oil in same skillet over ...

This puréed broccoli soup is so flexible. Substitute asparagus or zucchini for the fennel in this recipe when they’re in season; cook them along with the broccoli. The crunchy, garlicky croutons are ...

Americans say it's an acquired taste or, in the condescending way we have of viewing young palates, an "adult" taste. But to many Italians, broccoli rabe (pronounced "rahb") is the taste of home, ...