Baked Pasta with Sausage and Broccoli Rabe is your new easy, one-pot weekday meal

Nothing welcomes the fall season quite like a comforting bowl of pasta. It seems to be one of the busiest times of the year, and somehow everyone still wants dinner each night.

Insert this week’s recipe for a delicious, simple dinner: Baked Pasta with Sausage and Broccoli Rabe. If you can fit all the food groups into one dish, you should, especially when feeding a toddler — or anyone for that matter. This meal is so delicious, it might make it into your regular dinner menu rotation.

Cleanup is pretty quick, too, making this perfect for weeknights. All you need is a heavy, ovenproof skillet (preferably cast iron) and a large pot to cook the pasta in and mix the ingredients together. If you really want to cut down on dishes, you can make everything in one large pot.

Any time there’s pasta and a creamy cheese sauce in a recipe, you cannot go wrong. Add Italian sausage, garlic, broccoli rabe and sage, and the whole dish goes to next-level deliciousness. I like to top it with some Parmesan cheese because why not?

Pasta is a welcomed old friend we used to enjoy, and then some food allergies and low-carb diets robbed us of that joy. We are back to full-fledged pasta eating around here, and I’m not sorry about it. Serve this pasta dish alongside an Italian salad, and dinner is ready to enjoy.

Bon Appetit

This story was originally published October 3, 2022 at 12:11 PM.