PORCINI AND SWEET PEPPER SAUCE. This is a variation of the basic tomato sauce using the last good summer peppers and the first porcini available in the fall. Vegetables are added to the onion and slowly stewed for a long time like a creamy compote.
lumachine pasta in a sweet pepper and porcini sauce
Recipe
- One 400 gr. (12 ounces) can diced tomato
- 15 gr. (1/2 ounce) dried porcini soaked in 2/3 cup lukewarm water
- 2 large onions, thinly sliced
- 2 red or yellow sweet peppers cut into 1 cm. (1/2 inch) wide, 4 cm. (2 inch) long strips
- 3 tabsp heavy whipping cream
- 400 gr. short pasta like penne, rigatoni or lumache ( or gluten-free alternatives)
Use a shallow, thick bottomed pan with a lid over low heat. Soften onion and sweet peppers in 2 tablespoon EVO oil until soft and falling apart, about 30-45 min. When the mixture starts to dry out, add the soaked porcini with their water. Simmer until the soaking water is completely reduced. Add the tomato and cook for additional 10 min. until slightly thickened. Add cream, but do not cook it. Use with short pasta with a sprinkle of chopped fresh parsley or basil, if desired. This sauce can be prepared ahead and frozen. Serves 4.
Ciao Letizia – I just came across your kind note on my blog for a few back. Grazie for being so sweet! I would love to visit you and the area, for which I am long overdue. Looking forward to reading more delicious blogs from you as well! Un bacio – M:)
Ciao Megan
how nice to hear from you. There’s a lot of time to come to Umbria before the season starts again!
This blog is so beautiful! I just love it. It’s so YOU Letizia. Why did I have to wait to today to find it? I found it because someone came on my blog from here and I saw that and thought hmmmm, are they coming from your main site … or….! Remember last year I told you my friend said to me ” that Letizia, she is the REAL DEAL!” That you are. I would love to be out of the snow with you down there but I think you might still be away. Much love to you, Ruud, Tea, and Google. A presto….. bacioni diana
Ciao Diana, we are just back from Thailand and Hong Kong (see picture in today’s post). No snow in Assisi but pretty cold, it is tough to get used to the temperature after the tropics. Bacioni a te
L.