What’s for dinner tonight?? This simple pasta dish is quick to prepare, full of flavour and only has 4 ingredients including olive oil! Serve with a crusty bread like calabrese or a whole grain day-old bread to soak up liquid. Alternatively you can reduce amount of pasta liquid for a less broth-like sauce. I have a Gluten Intolerance so I made mine with brown rice fettuccine. Either way, serve immediately!

Spicy Salami Pasta – Serves 4-6

Author Ordinary Day With Milena

Ingredients 

2 cups of red onion, thinly sliced and left in circles
1 cup roasted red pepper drained of liquid and sliced into 1″ thick pieces
1 cup of spicy salami – use a Salametti and cut into circles and then cut into 1″ long strips
400 grams dried rigatoni or bucatini
2 cups reserved pasta water
Chives or green onions
Generous amounts of parm cheese
Olive oil

Directions

1. In a large frying pan add 2 tbsp olive oil. Add sliced onion and sauté on medium-low heat
2. In the meantime bring to a boil a large pot of water, heavily salted. It should taste like the sea.
3. Add pasta when water is a rolling boil. Cook pasta according to manufacturers directions on package.
4. Once onions have become tender add roasted peppers and Salami. Raise heat on element to brown Salami & slightly soften peppers.
5. Before draining pasta reserve 2 cups of liquid**Drain pasta. Only rinse if using brown rice pasta.
6. Add onion & peppers to pasta and stir well. Add water and stir well.
7. Serve immediately w generous amount of parm, chives & bread.

**If using brown rice pasta reserve the 2 cups of liquid aprox 2 minutes after adding it to the water. The water at end of cooking is too starchy and thick to use. Alternatively you could use diluted beef broth.

Strips of spicy Salami compliment the roasted red peppers beautifully

Gluten Free Fettuccine is my favourite!