A plate of bowtie pasta in an orange-ish sauce mixed in with broccoli.
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Bell pepper sauce pasta 🫑

I really hate bell peppers but I thought I'd give this recipe a try and it went amazingly so WHATEVER! I guess I'll let them slide just this one time.

Notes

I highly recommend the optional ingredients — they make the dish more fun and more healthy!

Ingredients

For the actual sauce (+pasta):

  • 2.5 cups pasta (I used the bowtie kind)
  • 1 onion
  • 2 bell peppers (not the green kind)
  • 2 Roma tomatoes
  • 1 bulb of garlic
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Chili flakes
  • Olive oil
  • 1/2 a cup of cooking cream
  • 2 tsps. cream cheese

    • Optional ingredients:

  • Broccoli
  • Mushrooms
  • Smoked tofu

    • Materials:

  • Oven-safe tray
  • Blender or food processor

    • Directions

    Preheat your oven to 425°F.

    Peel the skin and first layer off an onion and cut off the ends. Cut the onion in half.

    Cut two bell peppers in half. Cut off the top and take out all the seeds.

    Cut the tops off two Roma tomatoes and cut them in half. Cut the top off a whole bulb of garlic — do not seperate the cloves or remove the skin.

    Place all of the vegetables (and fruits) on an oven-safe baking tray. Make sure it's not flat, or the juice is going to drip out and make your oven dirty. Drizzle olive oil and sprink salt, pepper, and chili flakes (in whatever amount you'd like) over the whole thing.

    Throw your tray into the oven for 30 minutes. In the meantime, fill a pot with water, a pinch of salt, and a few drops of olive oil. Wait for it to heat up before putting your pasta in and boiling until at the hardness you like. At this point, if you're adding anything extra, cut and cook it a bit.

    Once the 30 minutes are up, take the tray out and let it cool down a bit. Once you can touch the contents, peel the skin off the bell peppers. Throw it all in a blender (you can cut them into smaller pieces, according to the size of your blender) and add a small amount of pasta water (just a few spoons). Blend until you have a sauce.

    Pour the sauce into a pot on the stove and add the pasta. Stir in the extra ingredients, if you're using anything.

    Credits

    ChefRon.