French in a Flash: Penne with Piment d'Espelette

Name: French in a Flash: Penne with Piment d'Espelette
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Mediterranean, French, European
Ingredients: 10 leaves fresh basil; 10 leaves fresh mint; 1 big clove garlic, thinly sliced; 4 servings Kosher salt; 2 Tbsps olive oil; 454 grams penne; 1 shallot, diced; 6 vine ripe tomatoes, peeled and seeded and puréed

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give French in a Flash: Penne with Piment d'Espelette a try. This recipe makes 4 servings with 506 calories, 17g of protein, and 7g of fat each. This recipe covers 20% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up basil, mint, penne, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the kosher salt you could follow this main course with the Low Fat Crumbs Cake (Kosher-Dairy) as a dessert. This recipe is typical of Mediterranean cuisine.

Instructions

To peel tomatoes, core them, and draw an X in the skin at the bottom of the tomato with the tip of a sharp paring knife. Drop the tomatoes in boiling water for 30 seconds, then shock in very cold water. Peel the skin away from the flesh.

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Cut the tomatoes in half, and squeeze the seeds out of the flesh.

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Seeds

Put the tomato flesh in a food processor, and blitz till smooth.

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In a medium saucepot, heat the olive oil over medium heat.

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Add the shallots and garlic, and sauté, stirring often, until soft and fragrant: about 3 minutes.

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Add the Piment d’Espelette and stir into the hot oil.

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Add the tomato flesh purée, season well with salt, and cook on medium heat, uncovered, for 15 minutes.

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Add the mint and basil leaves, and simmer on low heat for a final 15 minutes.

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While the sauce is cooking, bring a large pot of salted water to boil. When the sauce has about 10 minutes left, drop the penne into the water, and cook until al dente.

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Drain the pasta, and add the penne and the sauce to the larger of the two pots. Cook together on medium-low heat, stirring continuously, for another minute or two, until the pasta absorbs some of the sauce.

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