Sun dried tomato pesto is one of the most populr pesto sauce. Sun dried tomato pesto commonly contain dehydrated sun dried tomato, pine nuts, cheese and garlic. Well pesto is basically using greens or veggies that blended with nuts and cheese. The greens or veggies that possibly for pesto is basil, parsley, broccoli, spinach, tomato, beet root, etc, and it blended with many kind of nuts and cheese, you name it for your licking preference. I’ve ever made a pesto with Lemon Basil, Peanuts and Parmaggiano-Reggiano Cheese Pesto before, today i’m making a sun dried tomato pessto with some roasted bell pepper. For the protein, i use my Homemade Duck Prosciutto
Sun dried tomato and roasted bel pepper pesto had a tangy and smoky flavour with a polite hint of hotness. Some people like to charred the roasted pepper and peel the skin, but i didn’t. The bell pepper skin is valuable for lots of dietary fibres and vitamins.You won’t even know it since it proccessed into fine paste along with the sun dried tomato pesto ingredient. Some of you would questioning where is the duck prosciutto. Well i browned it firs since my grandmas won’t eat any uncooked food, even it cured meat. The duck prosciutto is got strighten when it heated and don’t worry it won’t change the taste.
Sun Dried Tomato & Roasted Pepper Pesto Spaghetti Pasta with Duck Prosciutto Recipe”
Ingredient:
- 125 gr pasta, cook with package instruction
- 50 gr HOMEMADE DUCK PROSCIUTTO
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- spinach salad
Sun Dried Tomato and Roasted Pepper Sauce Recipe:
- 50 gr HOMEMADE SUN DRIED TOMATOES, soaked with boiling water for 10 minutes, drained, reserve the liqid
- 1 large size red bell pepper, seeded, quartered
- 3 tbsp roasted cashew
- 3 cloves garlic
- 2 tbsp grated parmesan cheese
- a pinch of oregano
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Instruction:
How to Make Sun Dried Tomato and Roasted Pepper Sauce:
- Put the sun dried tomato, roasted bell pepper, cashew, garlic and cheese in food processor and process until form a smooth paste
- Heat up the olive oil in a sauce pan, saute the paste until fragrance
- Add the liquid from soaking sun dried tomato, season with salt, pepper and oregano, bring to boil
- Simmer and reduce the sauce until thicken
How to Make Sun Dried Tomato & Duck Prosciutto Spaghetti :
- Heat up the olive oil, saute the duck prosciutto until slightly browned
- Add the garlic and saute until slightly browned
- Put the sun dried tomato and roasted pepper paste into the pan and toss it well(add the soaking liquid if needed)
- Serve with the spinach salad