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Crispy Orecchiette With Spicy Sausage and Collard Ragù

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Crispy Orecchiette with spicy sausage and collard ragu on a blue plate.
Photo by PEDEN + MUNK

The reason this pasta dish is over-the-top fantastic is because you go a tiny final step to crisp up the cooked orecchiette before it goes swimming in its spicy sausage ragù. A few minutes, one measly extra skillet—that’s all it takes. I repeat, YOUR PASTA WILL BE CRISPY. You’ll use only a half pound of pasta for this dish because it’s loaded with greens and sausage and burrata, but I promise it will be enough to fill four bellies.

This recipe was excerpted from ‘More is More' by Molly Baz. Buy the full book on Amazon.

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