Pasta with Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Cream Sauce

Pasta with Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Cream Sauce
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Measures Ingredients Weights
Sauce
84 oz Tomatoes, canned -
2 1/4 cup Peppers, red, roasted 450 g
6 tbsp Oil, olive -
3 tbsp Bick’s® Pickled Hot Banana Pepper Rings, minced (or to taste) 45 g
1 tbsp Garlic, pureed -
3 cups Regular or 2% Carnation® Evaporated Milk* -
1/4 cup Sugar, white -
1/2 tbsp Salt -
  Pepper, cayenne -
18 cups Penne Rigate, dry 1.8 kg
  Basil, fresh, chopped -
  Parmigiano-Reggiano, grated -

Yield: Makes 24 servings
Per portion:1 1/2 cups (375 mL)
Total Recipe:Pasta: 36 cups (9 L) / Sauce: 12 cups (3 L)

Instructions:

  1. Sauce: Puree tomatoes with peppers.
  2. Sweat garlic and hot banana pepper rings in oil over low heat. Add pureed tomato/red pepper mixture; increase heat to high and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until thickened, about 15 minutes. Stir in evaporated milk, sugar and salt; cook an additional 5 minutes. Adjust seasoning.
  3. Cook pasta in boiling salted water until al dente.
  4. Place sauce in steam table insert pan (full pan, 20” x 12” or 50 cm x 30 cm), at least 4” / 10 cm deep. Stir in pasta.

A la minute:

  • Warm 1/2 cup (125 mL) Sauce in saucepan. Add 1 1/2 cups (375 mL) cooked pasta and 1 tbsp (15 mL) minced fresh basil. Serve immediately with grated Parmigiano-Regianno.

Notes:

  • *2 x 370 mL cans