Roasted Pepper & Garlic Pasta
Easy and delicious roasted pepper and garlic pasta dish. Just a few key ingredients to make this, and perfect for batch cooking. The sauce can be made in advance and frozen for evenings where you can't be bothered to cook.
Ingredients
- 2 bell peppers
- 1 red onion
- 3 cloves garlic skin on
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 125 ml plant based milk
- 150 ml vegan creme fraiche sub for vegan single cream *will be thinner in texture
- 1 tsp dried sage
- 1 tsp dried rosemary
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- Large pinch salt & pepper
- 1 tbsp olive oil to add to the blender
- Handful of vegan mozzarella optional
- 5-6 Tendetstem
Instructions
- Roughly chop the peppers and quarter the onion, add to a tray with 1 tbsp olive oil, the dried herbs and garlic cloves to roast for 40-45 mins at 180°C
- Add approx 200g dried pasta (enough to serve 4) to a pot of boiling water, and cook until al dente. Add the tenderstem to a steaming rack above the pasta, or simply add to the pot with the boiling pasta for the last 5 minutes of cooking
- Once the veg is cooked, add to a blender along with the oat milk, creme fraiche, olive oil, salt and pepper and blitz until smooth
- Drain the pasta (saving a bit of water) then mix together with the pasta sauce, on a low heat, adding in the mozzarella (optional ingredient). taste test adding a little more dried basil if needed
- Add the tenderstem on top, sprinkle another pinch of salt and black pepper over the top and enjoy!
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Notes
Swap vegan cheese for 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
If you want this extra thick, sub the plant based milk for 125ml of more vegan single cream
You can use fresh pasta, just follow the cooking instructions as it'll need less time boiling