Do you like roasted red bell peppers? You should try them in a pasta sauce! Here’s a wonderful roasted bell pepper pasta sauce from the king of sauces himself, Hank Shaw. ~Elise

This is a pasta sauce I came up with when I recently spent a night working the pasta station at Grange restaurant in Sacramento for Chef Michael Tuohy. It is a Spanish-inspired sauce of roasted red peppers, plenty of garlic and a hit of sage – it’s similar to the flavors in my favorite wild game stew, a dish from the Spanish region of Aragon called chilindron.

I originally made the sauce to go with pici pasta, a hand-rolled, fat spaghetti-like shape that is a little like a marriage between bucatini and Japanese udon noodles. If you can find bucatini, which are fat spaghetti noodles with a hole in the center of them, use that. If not, use regular spaghetti. Can you use another shape? Sure, just don’t go too fine: Penne is great, angel hair is not.

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