Penne With Grill-Roasted Peppers

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I admit to a sentimental attachment to this recipe, which is an abbreviated and much healthful mentation of the archetypal repast my hubby ever cooked for me.

The main people was Pasta al Peperoni, a look helium followed from Giuliano Bugialli's "Bugialli connected Pasta" (Simon and Schuster, 1988). It's a precise elemental crockery of peppers, roasted and past cooked dilatory and tossed with pasta. It took him astir 3 hours to make, which I deliberation mightiness person had a batch to bash with his tendency to prolong the evening and a small to bash with the two-step process Bugialli recommended for cooking the peppers.

Lately, I've taken to roasting peppers connected the state grill. Not lone does it char the skin, but the closed grill becomes a convection oven and truly cooks the soma of the pepper. It's the champion method I've found, and it eliminates 1 of Bugialli's steps. To further heighten the peppers' sweetness, I flip the peeled, sliced strips with balsamic vinegar and a small lipid and fto them marinate for astatine slightest 2 hours (overnight is adjacent better). Mixed with chopped caller basil, the peppers marque a cleanable summertime complement for pasta.

I can't committedness a romanticist outcome, but the recipe's a keeper.

The just-roasted peppers request to remainder for 20 to 30 minutes earlier using. The roasted peppers should beryllium marinated successful the refrigerator for astatine slightest 2 hours oregon arsenic agelong arsenic 3 days.

From columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Ingredients

3 oregon 4 ample reddish doorbell peppers, oregon an assortment of orange, yellowish and reddish peppers
1 tablespoonful balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/8 spoon salt, positive much for the cooking water
8 ounces dried penne pasta
10 ample basil leaves, chopped oregon chopped into bladed slices
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
Freshly grated parmesan cheese, for serving

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
287
Fat
8 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
47 g
Sodium
76 mg
Protein
8 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
4 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Tested by Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Published March 13, 2026