Recipe: This five-ingredient dish with chicken sausage and broccoli is ideal for work nights

Russell Selander is simply a trial room navigator astatine America’s Test Kitchen successful Boston, portion of the culinary enactment motor down Cook’s Illustrated mag and Cook’s Country magazine, arsenic good arsenic the cooking-based TV shows (“America’s Test Kitchen” and “Cook’s Country”) that aerial connected nationalist television.

Selander explains successful “Five Ingredient Dinners” (America’s Test Kitchen) that aft workdays spent cooking and testing, helium doesn’t similar doing a batch of “fussing astir successful the kitchen” astatine home. The casual sheet-pan look helium contributed to the cookbook showcases afloat cooked chickenhearted sausage, broccoli, and barley. He jump-starts browning by heating an oiled, rimmed expanse cookware for 3 to 5 minutes successful a 425-degree oven. Easy.

Sheet-Pan Chicken Sausages with Broccoli and Barley

Yield: 4 servings

INGREDIENTS

12 ounces broccoli florets, chopped into 1 12-inch pieces

1 1/2 pounds afloat cooked chickenhearted sausage

1 cupful quick-cooking barley

1 ounce Parmesan cheese, grated (1/2 cup)

1 ail clove, minced

Staple ingredients: extra-virgin olive oil, salt, pepper

PROCEDURE

1. Adjust oven rack to lowest position. Heat oven to 425 degrees. Brush rimmed baking expanse with 1 tablespoonful olive oil. Transfer expanse to oven and vigor until lipid is conscionable hardly smoking, 3 to 5 minutes.

2. Toss broccoli with 2 tablespoons oil, 1/2 spoon brackish and 1/4 spoon pepper. Arrange sausage and broccoli successful azygous furniture connected preheated sheet. Roast until sausage is browned connected bottom, astir 12 minutes. Flip sausage connected 2nd broadside and disturbance broccoli and proceed to roast until sausage is browned connected 2nd broadside and broccoli is tender, astir 10 to 12 minutes longer. Transfer sausage to platter and structure with aluminum foil, transportation broccoli to a bowl.

3. Meanwhile, bring 1 1/2 cups h2o and 1/4 spoon brackish to a boil successful mean saucepan. Add barley, cover, trim vigor to debased and navigator until tender and astir of h2o is absorbed, astir 10 minutes.

4. Add barley, Parmesan, garlic, and 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive lipid to roasted broccoli successful bowl. Toss mildly to harvester and play with brackish and capsicum to taste. Serve with sausage.

Source: “Five Ingredient Dinners” (America’s Test Kitchen)

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