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.