Pasta with Friggitelli - Small Sweet Green Peppers

Pasta con i friggitelli is a Calabrian summer pasta made with small sweet green peppers, tomato sauce, and chunky homemade pasta like Fileja or cavatelli. I grew up eating this every summer in Calabria the moment the friggitelli arrived. They have a short season and we never let them pass without making this dish at least once a week.

Course Pasta

Cuisine Italian

Diet Vegetarian

Keyword baked pasta with eggplants, pasta with peppers, paste with friggitelli

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 14

Total Time 19

Servings people

Calories 610kcal

Author Laura Tobin

Equipment

Ingredients

17 oz friggitelli
14 oz tomato sauce Mutti
1 lb Chuncky pasta Fileja or cavatelli
3 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
½ cup freshly grated Pecorino or Ragusano

Instructions

Rinse the friggitelli under cold water and Remove the stem and the seeds from inside.
Heat a generous amount of extra virgin olive oil in a wide pan and fry the friggitelli until they are soft.
Add the tomato sauce, season with salt, and let everything simmer together while you cook the pasta.
Cook the Fileja or cavatelli in well-salted boiling water according to their size.
Drain the pasta and add it directly to the pan with the sauce.
Stir everything together over the heat for a couple of minutes so the pasta absorbs the sauce.
Serve immediately with a generous grating of Pecorino or Caciocavallo Ragusano.

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