Silvana's Mediterranean & basil pasta

Silvana's Mediterranean & basil pasta

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Cooking time

Prep: 5 mins Cook: 30 mins

Skill level

Easy

Servings

Serves 4

Silvana Franco's fast, easy and healthy vegetarian pasta is perfect for a midweek meal

Nutrition and extra info

Additional info

  • Vegetarian
Nutrition info

Nutrition per serving

kcalories
452
protein
14g
carbs
86g
fat
8g
saturates
1g
fibre
7g
sugar
1g
salt
0.1g

Ingredients

  • 2 red peppers, seeded and cut into chunks
  • 2 red onions, cut into wedges
  • 2 mild red chillies, seeded and diced
  • 3 garlic cloves, coarsley chopped
  • 1 tsp golden caster sugar
  • 2 tbsp olive oil, plus extra to serve
  • 1kg small ripe tomatoes, quartered
  • 350g dried pasta
  • a handful of fresh basil leaves and 2 tbsp grated parmesan (or vegetarian alternative), to serve

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Method

  1. To roast the veg, preheat the oven to 200C/gas 6/fan 180C. Scatter the peppers, red onions, chillies and garlic in a large roasting tin. Sprinkle with sugar, drizzle over the oil and season well with salt and pepper. Roast for 15 minutes, toss in the tomatoes and roast for another 15 minutes until everything is starting to soften and look golden.
  2. While the vegetables are roasting, cook the pasta in a large pan of salted boiling water according to packet instructions, until tender but still with a bit of bite. Drain well.
  3. Remove the vegetables from the oven, tip in the pasta and toss lightly together. Tear the basil leaves on top and sprinkle with Parmesan to serve. If you have any leftovers it makes a great cold pasta salad – just moisten with extra olive oil if needed.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, August 2002

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tinydancer's picture
5

I thought this might be a tad plain given the minimal ingredients, but it was really delicious and so easy. I added a lot more than 2tbsp of cheese though.....you can never have too much cheese.

susanholden's picture
5

A delicious meal, simple to make. I didn't have any fresh chillies or garlic, so I put a teaspoon of dried chillies and some garlic paste and mixed with the oil before coating all the veg. I will definitely make this again.

lumene's picture
5

This was very tasty and easy to make. I added some sun dried tomatoes, goat cheese and olives and it was an instant hit among my friends. There was so much to eat that I could even bring some of the food to work the next day.

debbier65's picture

This is one of my absolute favourites, so easy to make, one dish and the tastes are so fresh, really tasty.

phineas3's picture

ive made this dish lots of times ,but always used it cold. Everyone all ways ask me for the recipe. family take to work any that is left over.

gezevans's picture
5

Fantastic recipe hot or cold. First time I made it I put a couple of chicken breasts in the oven to roast for the second 15 minutes, splashed them with some fresh lemon juice, then chopped them up into the pasta at the end. Am making it again tonight and adding some butternut squash and a bit more chilli. It will be coming with me to work tomorrow too!

cocovanilla's picture
4

A little bland in taste, but I did follow the suggestion of replacing some sugar with balsamic vinegar and I think it helped a bit.
Served it as a side dish to grilled meat and it worked very well.

tommein's picture
5

Added thinly sliced strips of carrot and roasted the veg on the BBQ. We really liked it and will use the recipe regularly.

tommein's picture
5

Used all the ingredients also added thinly sliced carrots - roasted them in a metal tray on the BBQ - it was a delicious pasta dish.

anengineer's picture
5

Oh. My. God. !! This is the best recipe I've cooked - ever. ...and I'm not really a pasta lover either. I looked at the suggestions made by others and added lightly toasted pine nuts at the end and also Crespo Greek Style black olives (the ones NOT in brine, but dry in the jar, stone in <obviously removed the stones before adding !>). Simply stunning. I used wholemeal penne, but I don't think the pasta used would make much difference. The combination of the caramelised red onions, the sweetness of the red peppers, the saltiness of the of black olives and the delicious pine nuts made this dish simply stunning. If you don't try this, you must be mad ! :-)

dutes8080's picture
5

Originally served this up with Tomato & thyme cod but it proved to be fantastic on its own, will definitely be making this again! P.S. Added some unused mushrooms and two courgettes that were lurking in the fridge - worked well! P.P.S. Lovely cold but also reheats well

frybitz's picture
5

We made this recipe for a family get together. Everyone loved it - we had to double the ingredients and sadly there were no left overs! Will definitely make again and try a different selection of vegetables. Excellent recipe.

chocorina's picture
5

A fabulously versatile and flavoursome recipe. I used amaranth wholegrain pasta and added broccoli florets to the pot for the last few minutes of cooking.
For the roasted veg I threw in small chunks of sweet potato, courgettes and peeled whole garlic cloves with the onion. Omitted the chilli and peppers because I didn't have any but at the end of roasting added jar peppers and cubes of halloumi cheese. Back in the oven for 5-10 mins to melt the cheese slightly. Threw it all together and topped with a little grated low fat cheese, absolutely delicious despite forgetting to add the basil.

ffingy78's picture
5

This sounded so simple that I was skeptical, but the other ratings persuaded me to try. I used grana padano as the shop had run out of parmesan, but other than that sticked to the recipe. What can I say but awesome, and so easy to do. Omnom.

kerryjhague's picture
5

this was so simple but absolutely delicious. I will definitely be making this on a regular basis.

beki-boo1985's picture
5

This recipe for great,easy to make and seen as my fiance doesnt like peppers,tomatoes or onion it also means there was LOADS left over and was able to freeze it for another time.
I also added mushrooms and a little bit of grated cheese as well as the parmasan

Lovely and healthly

cathy_youd's picture
5

Made this last night and it was gorgeous! Lots of leftovers in the fridge now too but I am going to add different extras to each portion that I eat (tuna maybe, blue cheese...)

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