French Sauce Pasta Recipe

Ingredients

  • pappardelle - 250g

  • can tomatoes - 200g

  • small purple onion - 1, peeled, root left intact

  • yellow pepper - 1, seeded, and sliced

  • garlic - 1 clove, crushed

  • courgettes - 1, cut into fingers

  • vegetable stock - 100ml

  • red wine - 2 tbsp

  • fresh thyme - 2 tsp, chopped

  • black olives - 3, stoned and chopped

  • caster sugar - 1 tsp

  • ground black pepper and salt

Method

  • Cook the pasta in a pan of boiling salted water until tender. Drain.

  • Cut the onion into 4 wedges through the root end. Put them into the pan together with garlic and stock. Bring to the boil, cover, and simmer for few minutes until tender.

  • Then, add in the courgettes, yellow pepper, red wine, tomatoes, sugar, thyme and season with pepper and salt. Bring to the boil and cook for 8 minutes, shaking the pan to coat the vegetables with the sauce.

  • Transfer the pasta to a serving dish and top wit the vegetables. Garnish with extra fresh thyme and black olives. Serves 2-3.

 

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