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Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
A perfect sauce to top any shape of pasta, or some fish
Recipe Category:
Sauces
Makes enough for:
1
batch sauce
All Rights Reserved:
an original recipe from Lavender and Lime
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Ingredients
2
large
red peppers
5
mls
black cumin seeds
10
mls
olive oil
1
small
red onion, peeled and sliced
2
cloves
garlic, sliced
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to season
5
mls
lemon juice
Method
Place your red peppers into an ovenproof dish and put under the grill for 50 minutes
Turn every 10 minutes to cook evenly
Put the cooked peppers into a bowl and cover with cling film
Set aside to cool, and then peel, remove the pips and cut into slices
Lightly toast the cumin seeds in a dry frying pan
Heat the oil in the frying pan with the cumin seeds, over a medium temperature
Sauté the onions and garlic until soft, seasoning generously
Set aside to cool
Place all of the cooked ingredients together with the lemon juice into a blender
Blitz until smooth (or as smooth as you want it) and adjust the seasoning
Serve on top of pasta with gremolata to garnish
Notes
If you cannot find the black cumin seeds, replace them with nigella seeds