Roasted Red Pepper & Tomato Pasta with Spinach & Rocket
This recipe is DELICIOUS and massively nutritious packed full of immune & happiness boosting vitamins and minerals.
Spinach in particular has been proved to be both Anti-Stress and Anti-Depressive!!!
Roasted Red Pepper & Tomato Pasta with Spinach & Rocket
Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cooking Time: 30 Minutes
Total time: 40 Minutes
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1 red onion
- 1 red pepper
- A Pack of cherry tomatoes
- 2 salad tomatoes
- Spinach
- Rocket
- 5 cloves of garlic
- Paprika
- Tomato purée
- Dried oregano
- Salt & pepper
Instructions
1.
Pre-heat your oven to 200°c
2.
Warm the Olive oil in the pan …. while you dice onion
3.
Add onion to pan – sautee for a few mins
4.
All the tomatoes (cherry toms whole and the salad Toms diced) along with some salt and pepper
5.
Peel and SLICE your garlic cloves. No crushing!!! Add to the pan and continue to stir. (Add a little water to prevent it from sticking and burning but not so much it takes away from the sautéing. )
6.
dice pepper and add to pan
7.
Add 2 tea heaped spoons of paprika
8.
1 tea spoon of oregano
9.
Add a little more water so there’s more fluid to play with and then put into the oven
10.
After 10 mins, stir, add a little more water and squash your tomatoes. If they don’t break easily they need another 5-10mins
11.
Once you’re able to easily squash the cherry tomatoes with a spoon, put your pasta on to boil, Leaving the tomatoes etc in the oven roasting
12.
Keep adding a little water gradually to make the roasted veggies more like a sauce, you don’t add loads of water at once because this creates a ‘boiling’ environment rather than roasting.
13.
Once your pasta is ALMOST cooked. Transfer all pasta and a little pasta water to the dish & stir.
14.
Add the spinach and rocket
15.
More salt and pepper
16.
Stir well
17.
Return to the oven while you get all bowls out and lay the table
18.
Serve with grated cheese and garlic bread 🤤
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You also need a heavy bottomed pan that can go between the hob and oven