Roasted pepper and black olive pesto pasta

Ingredients:

  • 2 red Romano peppers
  • 300g pasta
  • salt
  • 70g black olives (pits removed)
  • 100g feta
  • 30g olive oil

Methods:

  • Preheat the oven to 200C.
  • Cut red peppers in half (or into 3 or 4 flat sides if using bell peppers). Place them near the top of the oven, turn on the broiler and bake until the skins turn black.
  • Once the red pepper skin looks black, remove the peppers from the oven, place them in a bowl and cover with a plate/lid to steam their skins off.
  • Start boiling the pasta in a pot of salty water.
  • Remove most of the skins from the red peppers. It should be super easy, apart from the fact that they are a bit too warm to touch.
  • Return the skinned peppers into the bowl and add olives, feta and olive oil. Handblender everything into a pesto.
  • Once the pasta is ready, place a mug in the sink before draining the pasta (to reserve some pasta water, in case it will be needed to reach a pesto-like consistency) and mix it with the pesto.