Name: Spaghetti ai Peperoni (Spaghetti with sweet peppers)
Yield: Serves 4-5
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon (5 ml spoon) sugar; 1 teaspoon (5 ml spoon) salt; 4 tablespoons (4 X 15 ml spoon) olive oil; 1 medium-size onion, sliced finely; 1 lb (450 g) red or yellow pepper, or a mixture of both, peeled, de-seeded and sliced finely; 12 oz (350 g) spaghetti or vermicelli; freshly ground black pepper; 1 tablespoon (15 ml spoon) wine vinegar; 14 oz (397 g) can of tomatoes, chopped roughly

Preparation info

Serves
4-5

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Pasta Italian Style

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1991

About

Ingredients

4 tablespoons (4 X 15 ml spoon) olive oil
1 medium-size onion, sliced finely

Method

Peppers give character to any dish and their colours are beautiful mixed with pasta. The best way to prepare red and yellow peppers is to grill them until the skin becomes charred and blistered. Then with wet fingers peel off as much skin as you can and wipe dry with kitchen towelling. If peppers are peeled they need less cooking and are much more digestible. Green peppers are less fleshy and s