High Protein Tempeh Sausage & Broccoli Pasta In Creamy Garlic Sauce With Toasted Walnut Pangrattato

Cooking instructions

Before you start, take out all the ingredients for this recipe (see picture above) and rinse any raw grains, herbs or vegetables.

STEP 1

Boil your kettle and take out a saucepan and a large frying pan. 

STEP 2

Fill your saucepan with boiling water from your kettle, salt the water well and place over a medium-high heat. Roughly cut or break the lasagne sheets into thirds lengthways so you have long strips of pasta (don’t worry if they don’t all break perfectly!). Once the water is boiling, reduce the heat to medium and add the pasta. Cook until tender but al dente, around 6-8 minutes. Reserve a mug full of pasta water before draining. If the pasta is done before everything else is finished, toss it in some olive oil and separate the pieces to stop them from sticking together.

STEP 3

Place your frying pan over a medium heat and add a drizzle of oil. Once hot, add the walnut pangrattato and fry until golden. Remove and set aside. 

STEP 4

Break apart the tempeh with your hands into bitesized pieces and slice the tenderstem broccoli lengthways through the centre. Wipe the same pan clean you used for the pangrattato and add another drizzle of oil. Fry the tempeh for around 5 minutes until it starts to brown, then push it to one side of the pan and add the tenderstem broccoli (depending on the size of your pan, you may need to fry them in two separate pans). Continue cooking them both for around 5 minutes. Season everything well with salt and pepper. For the final 1 minute of cooking time, add the tempeh spice (fennel seeds) to the tempeh side of the pan and turn the tempeh through the seeds (you can leave these out if you don't love fennel!).

STEP 5

Turn the pan off once the tempeh and broccoli are cooked. Remove the broccoli from the pan and add the lasagne sheets and creamy garlic sauce into the frying pan. Stir the pasta and tempeh through the sauce to coat evenly. If the sauce needs loosening at all, add a little of the reserved pasta water.

STEP 6

To serve up, divide the pasta between serving bowls, top with the tenderstem broccoli and a scattering of walnut pangrattato. Enjoy!