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Bell Pepper pasta sauce

A creamy, warm and balanced pasta sauce on base of roasted bell peppers.

Mitchel Koster

2024-02-19

4 portion(s)

Ingredients

  • 2 onions
  • 4 cloves of garlic
  • 1 can of crushed tomatoes
  • 1 tbsp of Italian seasoning
  • .5 cup of cashews
  • .25 tsp of chili powder
  • 1 tsp of smoked paprika
  • 3 tbsp of nutritional yeast

Steps

Preperation

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.

Take the onions and bell pepper and cut them into rough chunks and cut the head of a bulb of garlic and place all in a oven tray.

Cook the vegetables

Coat the ingredients with olive oil, pepper and salt. Make sure to mix well. Cook for 20-40 minutes until the vegetables are charred and the garlic is roasted.

In the mean time put on a large pot of water with a tea spoon of salt and some oil and bring to a boil and add the pasta. Follow package instructions to cook till al dente.

Making the sauce

Once the vegetables are roasted add them to the blender with the nutritional yeast, cashes and spices. Blend until smooth, thin with pasta water of needed. You are aiming for a thick sauce.

Adjust spices as needed, it should be quite strong.

Finishing the pasta

Add sauce to a pan and simmer it to infuse flavors for around 5-10 minutes. Be sure to add pasta water to get the desired consistency. Add in the pasta and finish cooking in the pan.