Rather Roasted Garlic Red Pepper Sauce Pasta

By: Kelley Dillon and Jenny Breen

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Ingredients
Pasta sauce:

• 1 whole garlic head
• Sunflower oil
• 2-3 red bell peppers, halved and cored
• 1⁄2 onion
• 1 tomato
• 2 Tbsp fresh or dried basil
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 cup parmesan or 2 Tbsp nutritional yeast
• Reserved pasta water
• Additional: 1 lb pasta 

Directions

1. Cut the top off the garlic head to expose each of the cloves. Drizzle with oil and wrap in aluminum foil.
2. Roast red bell peppers skin side up, onion, and garlic at 425 F for 25 minutes or until the red bell peppers have slightly charred.
3. Place peppers in a tupperware container, cover, and steam for 30 minutes. Peel the skin off the peppers.
4. Squeeze garlic into a blender and blend along with the remaining ingredients but the pasta and pasta water.
5. Cook pasta and reserve pasta water. Add water to blender until sauce is at desired consistency. Add sauce to pasta and enjoy. ​

Garlic has a pungent, spicy flavor that sweetens once cooked

Selection tip: Select firm bulbs free from sprouts, brown or black spots, soft spots, or loose cloves
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Storage tip: store garlic unpeeled at room temperature 

This recipe was inspired by our CSA which included garlic from Glassworks Vines.

"There’s nothing better than growing your own food and buying local so you know where your food comes from."
​- Joy Hoppe, Glassworks Vines

Garlic was one of the first herbs cultivated. Originally used for medicinal purposes, it’s now mostly used as a spice that enhances the flavors of a dish. Throughout time, garlic has been a staple in virtually every cuisine around the world.

Joy Hoppe is a 5th generation farmer of Glassworks Vines. She believes food is at the center of health equity. Health equity is the equal opportunity for everyone to achieve good health by reducing barriers like limited access to nutritious food.

Garlic cloves are found in the bulbs of bulbous plants. Two types of garlic, softneck and hardneck, differentiate based on stiffness of the plant stem, size, color, and flavor intensity. However, softnecks do not grow well in MN because of our colder climate.

Pungent flavors of garlic and other herbs can replace excess salt in food. Most Americans consume too much sodium from processed foods. Cooking at home is a way to maintain healthy sodium intake. Garlic is also full of vitamin B6 and C, copper, manganese, selenium, and phytonutrients.