Simple. Delicious. Fast. All you need to know about this tasty pasta. Sugo ai Peperoni is a traditional tomato sauce usually slow roasted with yellow and red peppers and olive oil. We have made it with baby spinach, cherry tomatoes and zucchini for a match made in heaven with some tasty parmesan for good measure.
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As well as your basic cooking tools, you will need...
Deep Sided Frypan
Pot
Place a pot of water on the stove and bring to the boil for cooking pasta. Peel and finely chop garlic. Cut zucchini in half length ways and slice in half cm slices. Cut cherry tomatoes in half
Tip! You can grate the zucchini if you'd like to disguise the vegies.
Add a big pinch of salt to the rapidly boiling water. Add the fusilli pasta and cook for 6 - 8 minutes or until "al dente" or cooked to your liking. Save a cup of pasta cooking water and drain the pasta.
Tip! Take the pasta off just before it is cooked through. You will finish cooking it in the sauce.
Heat a large frypan over medium-high heat, add a drizzle of oil and add garlic and zucchini and continue cooking for a few minutes until zucchini starts to colour and soften.
Tip! When adding protein to this recipe, this step is a good time to prepare and properly cook your protein to ensure it is safe to eat.
Add Italian herbs, tomato paste and Sugo ai Peperoni and cook, stirring often for a few minutes.
Add the thickened cream to the sauce and stir to combine. Add the cooked, drained pasta and stir gently but well. Add some pasta water, a few spoonfuls at a time, until sauce reaches your preferred consistency.
Add the cherry tomatoes and the baby spinach at the last minute and stir through until it just wilts, with 1⁄2 the parmesan. Check seasoning and add salt and pepper as needed. Divide pasta between bowls, garnish with remaining parmesan and dig in!
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