Pasta al Pepe - Pasta with Pepper Cream Sauce

For those of you who love pasta and peppers then you'll enjoy this dish. This recipe is featured on our Rome Cookery Holiday. Our venue is located about 30 minutes outside the city of Rome. If you have any queries regarding our Cookery Course in Rome, please don't hesitate to get in contact with us, or you can also order our 2009 Brochure online.

The following quantities will feed 4:

Ingredients
- 2 small Yellow Peppers
- 2 small Red Peppers
- 500ml Vegetable Broth
- 4 tablespoons extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 2 Red Onions
- Salt
- Pepper
- Basil
- 320g of Pasta
- Salty Ricotta

Instructions

• Wash the peppers, remove the seeds and the white part and cut into cubes
• Heat up the vegetable broth
• Add 2 tablespoons of oil in the pan and add chopped onion
• Sauté the onions, add a pinch of salt and pepper to taste
• Add a spoon of broth
• Leave to cook for ten minutes, stiring regularly, over a gentle heat
• After which time leave cooking for a futher 5 minutes without the lid
• Add a splash of broth if it is too dry
• Mix in the peppers (except for 2 tablespoons of them) with a tablespoon of broth and 2 leaf of washed basil
• Put the cream into a bowl
• Cook the pasta in generous salty water, drain it and dress with the cream you prepared
• Serve by decorating with the peppers you left and some salty ricotta

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