Special Pasta with Capsicum sauce

When I tried to cook pasta the other night, I realised I didn’t have any tomatoes, not even canned ones that I always make sure I have in my pantry. Disappointed, I thought hard for a moment and remembered a recipe on a cooking show that had a pasta sauce made with red capsicum. At first, I wasn’t very convinced about the capsicum sauce business. Up until that point, pasta sauce was either tomato or cream based. Is anyone laughing at me? *embarrassed* But that night I kind of felt like trying it out, I guess I had no other option . :P As it turned out….guess how it was? ….. it was very delicious and full of sweet flavour from capsicum. I must say I was really impressed by the taste. It was definately worth a try. “Never afraid of new recipes, even if they sound strange!”

I tried to film the cooking process. But it was so hard! Can you imagine? Cooking with one hand and maneuvering a camera with the other… *Whew~* I couldn’t help laughing. I’m going to post it when I get around to editing it soon. :-)

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<Fettuccine with Grilled Capsicum Sauce>

Just a picture of steps of making for now.

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Ingredients

2 capsicums, 5 cloves garlic – grilled (they can be pan grilled if you are lazy like me, he he :-) )
1 zucchini, 1 onion – pan fried
English spinach – 3-4 stalks, stems removed
kalamata olives

Here goes the video recipe. (I went through my old folder and found one waiting to be edited, but I thought better of it.  I just want to get done and over with it instead of having it lingering in my mind for a year.)

4 Comments

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4 Responses to Special Pasta with Capsicum sauce

  1. Jiwon Kwon

    Hi!
    It looks great!
    I’m glad to find your blog while I was searching recipes for cold pasta salad today.
    I’m even glad to know that you were in Korea and taught English.
    I am an ‘아줌마’ interested in practising English and cooking in Seoul.
    I added your blog to my list.
    What ‘s the green leaf in your picture?
    Did you put salt?

  2. Tom

    Cooking it now !! LoOks great !

  3. Patrick

    Pat
    Tried it and was surprised on how sweet the capsicum was and i tweaked it a bit and put lemon and dill in instead of basil and anchovies,,, just fab

  4. I remember being surprised myself too. I should make it again with a new twist. Char-grilling capsicums over the stove is a bit of work but it gives wondeful smoky flavour.

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