Peperonata

Sweet Pepper Ragout

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Enoteca

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 2001

  • About

Peperonata is a typical southern Italian dish, yet it was served to me at the Enoteca Baldi in Panzano, in Tuscany, as an accompaniment to a platter of roast pork. While geographically unrelated, they tasted wonderful together. Red and yellow peppers are most commonly used, but if you can’t find yellow, use green. Some versions add tomato, others not. Some add a splash of vinegar at the end of cooking, others add sugar and vinegar for an agrodolce, or s