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Spaghetti with yellow pepper sauce

Spaghetti with yellow pepper sauce.  Photograph: Harry Weir Photography
Spaghetti with yellow pepper sauce. Photograph: Harry Weir Photography
Serves: 4
Course: Main Course
Cooking Time: 1 hr 0 mins

Ingredients

  • 50ml olive oil
  • 2 cloves of garlic, peeled and sliced
  • 1 sprig of fresh rosemary
  • 3 yellow peppers, deseeded and diced
  • A pinch of dried chilli
  • 150ml cream
  • 100g grated Parmesan
  • 500g dried spaghetti
  • Salt and black pepper

1 Very gently cook the garlic and rosemary in the olive oil until the garlic starts to colour.

2 Remove the rosemary, then add the peppers and dried chilli.

3 Turn the peppers in the oil, cover and continue to cook over a low heat for 20 minutes until they are soft and melting.

4 Add the cream, bring to a simmer, season and then blend in a food proccessor or blender straight away, and return to the pan.

5 Cook the pasta as per packet instructions. Drain and fold through the yellow pepper sauce.

6 Serve with lashings of Parmesan.

Paul Flynn

Paul Flynn

Paul Flynn is a chef, restaurateur and contributor to The Irish Times. He and his wife, Máire, run the Tannery restaurant and cookery school in Dungarvan, Co Waterford