Italian
Spaghettone Lemon and Friggitello
by Cucina con Ruben · 548K subscribers on YouTube
Whole wheat spaghetti with lemon and Friggitello peppers, a simple and flavorful pasta dish that uses basil stems and leftover bread.
- Difficulty
- easy
Ingredients
10 items- Spaghettone IntegraleWhole wheat spaghetti
- FriggitelliItalian sweet frying peppers, seeds removed
- Cherry TomatoesCherry tomatoes, crushed by hand
- Basil StemsBasil stems, used for flavor and removed
- Pane di IeriDay-old bread, small piece, toasted with garlic
- GarlicGarlic, for toasting with bread
- Lemon ZestLemon zest, added off heat
- Pecorino RomanoPecorino cheese, grated
- SaltSalt
- Chili Pepper(optional) — Chili pepper (optional, the chef says it's always used)
Method
- Remove the seeds from the friggitello peppers, add salt, and set aside.
- Break the cherry tomatoes with your hands into a pan.
- After a couple of minutes, add a splash of water to the pan.
- After 5 minutes, remove the basil stems and turn off the heat.
- Toast a small piece of day-old bread with garlic until crunchy.
- Off the heat, add lemon zest to the pan and chop briefly.
- Add the cooked spaghetti to the pan with the peppers and tomatoes.
- Add a generous amount of pecorino cheese and mix.
- Finish with a sprinkle of crunchy bread pieces.
Cucina con Ruben
Home cookReviewer548K subscribers on YouTube242.9M total channel viewsRuben Bondi - cucina italiana, kosher e giudaico-romana. Diventato noto durante il lockdown cucinando dal balcone a Trastevere.
