Roasted Pepper Sauce

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Roasted Pepper Sauce
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Recipe type: Pasta Sauce
Cuisine: Italian
 

This pasta sauce is a great change from your regular marinara sauce….it has deep flavors from roasting the sweet peppers, onions and garlic. Try it today!
Ingredients
  • 4-5 Roaster Sweet Peppers
  • 1-2 Tbsp of Driftless Organics Sunflower Oil
  • 1-2 leeks or medium onion, coarsely chopped (optional)
  • 4-5 cloves Garlic
  • 1 c. Chicken or Vegetable broth
  • Salt and Pepper, to taste
  • 1 tsp. Dried basil (or ¼ c. fresh, chopped)

Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 450F.
  2. Take roaster peppers, cut in half and deseed.
  3. Place on shallow sided baking sheet (with tin foil…makes clean up SO much easier).
  4. Place peppers and leeks/onions (optional) on sheet – drizzle with oil, use your hands to cover all over the pepper – front and back. Season with salt and pepper.
  5. Place peppers with skin side down.
  6. Put in oven for 10-15 min. Take out, flip over so skin side is up.
  7. Add garlic cloves. Roast another 10-15 min.
  8. It is done when you see blisters or a nice coloring on your garlic.
  9. Take out and set aside to cool for 5-10 min.
  10. When it’s able to be touched, take peppers and coarsely chop them. Add them to your blender. Toss in the garlic and leeks/onion (optional) and about 1 c. Chicken or Vegetable broth.
  11. Puree until smooth.
  12. Taste and adjust seasonings as needed.
  13. Pour into a pot, add basil and simmer in a pot over low heat for 10+ min. Letting the flavors develop a little further. Serve over pasta.

 

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