Red Pepper Sauce Pasta with Spinach and Feta
Nov 28, 2016, Updated Sep 19, 2021
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Red Pepper Sauce Pasta with Spinach and Feta – A perfect weeknight meal featuring sweet red peppers blended into a delicious and healthy sauce tossed with fettuccine pasta, spinach and feta cheese.
Red Pepper Sauce Pasta with a creamy, savory-sweet red pepper sauce, spinach, and feta cheese. Light, healthy, and simple, yet so, so good and delicious!
Red Peppers + Spinach + Sheep’s Milk White Cheese (Feta) = The flavors of my lovely Macedonia blended into ONE!
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GRILLED PIQUILLO PEPPERS
Later that day, because I was dying for a taste of Cara Mia’s Hand Grilled Piquillo Peppers, I made a meal out of ’em by throwing them in the blender and making us this silky and flavorful Red Pepper Sauce.
These peppers are hand grilled and have a smokey, distinct taste. Paired with garlic, onions and some herbs, they also make a pretty amazing pasta sauce.
On a scale of WHOA! to WHOOOOOOA!, this pasta dish was WHOOOOOOOOOOOA! Creamy, peppery, garlicky, cheesy…goodness. I can still taste it. It left us speechless. Not because we didn’t have anything to say – oh no, we ALWAYS talk – but because we didn’t want to come up for air.
As always, I think it would be a great idea for you to go and make this as soon as possible. Or as soon as you get your hands on a jar of Cara Mia Hand Grilled Piquillo Peppers.
HOW TO MAKE RED PEPPER SAUCE PASTA
The whole dish comes together in no time, to be quite honest.
- While the pasta is cooking, you’ll grab your peppers, STAR Extra Virgin Olive Oil, some sauteed onions, garlic and seasonings, throw ’em in the blender, make the red pepper sauce, and then wait to just toss it all together with the cooked pasta, spinach and feta cheese.
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Red Pepper Pasta Sauce
Ingredients
For the Red Pepper Sauce
- 1 jar (14.75 ounces) Cara Mia Hand Grilled Piquillo Peppers, drained
- 3 tablespoons STAR Extra Virgin Olive Oil, divided
- 1 yellow onion, thinly sliced
- 6 garlic cloves, smashed
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- salt and fresh ground pepper, to taste
- 2 tablespoons water
For the Pasta
- 12 ounces dry fettuccine pasta
- 1 bag (6 ounces) fresh baby spinach
- 1 cup crumbled fat free feta cheese
Instructions
- Boil the pasta. Cook pasta according to the directions on the package.
- Sauté. Place drained piquillo peppers in a blender and set aside. Meanwhile, heat 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil in a nonstick skillet. Add sliced onions, garlic, thyme, salt, and ground pepper. Cook for 4 minutes, stirring frequently, until tender.
- Blend. Remove from the heat and transfer the onion mixture to the blender with the peppers. Add water and blend until completely smooth. If too thick, add a tablespoon or two of extra virgin olive oil or water and continue to blend until the desired consistency is reached. Taste for seasonings and adjust accordingly, then set aside.
- Cook the spinach. Heat the remaining extra virgin olive oil in a skillet. Add spinach and cook for 2 minutes, or until wilted.
- Put it all together. Drain the cooked pasta and add it to the skillet with the spinach. Stir in feta cheese, and add as much pepper sauce as you'd like. Toss around to combine, then remove from heat and serve.
Nutrition
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This is totally my kind of recipe. That sauce pasta looks delicious. Some to treat for sure very soon.
Love, love, love this! I’m glad you mentioned the magic word, too: garlic! What a beautiful dish that I’m sure tastes amazing! Your Black Friday sounds like mine 🙂
LOL, I think I spent part of my Black Friday on the couch too. This pasta looks super yummy!
What a great looking dinner! Love it!
We’ve had some busy weeks lately, and this looks like the perfect meal for a crazy night! I love the different veggies you use! (P.S. I’m totally on board with the whole not-going-Black-Friday-shopping thing. I’d rather be at home cooking an awesome meal like this one!)
I know what I will be making when we want pasta next time! This looks amazing!
Now I am craving pasta for breakfast, although I could eat it all day long!