Rachel Roddy’s Recipe For Red Peppers Stuffed With Orzo, Tuna, Capers And Herbs | A Kitchen In Rome

Just beyond nan difficult unreserved of Viale Marconi, in nan quieter Via Gerolamo Cardano, is simply a celebrated bakery called Albanesi il forno delle meraviglie, meaning “the oven [or bakery] of wonders”. Established successful 1959 by Aldo Albanesi, and now tally by his sons Adriano and Alessandro, Albanesi is wondrous besides for its size. Behind an 11-window shopfront lies almost 500 sq m of shop floor, and a mini maze of laboratories successful which almost everything that tin beryllium made is made: bread, pizza, pies, cakes, biscuits, caller ovum pasta, sauces, baked pasta and different dishes that are fresh to eat. The snake of glass-fronted counters besides clasp cheese, different dairy products, cured meats, and vegetables and olives preserved successful various ways, while nan shelves are packed pinch mundane provisions of bully and applicable quality. This is simply a shop pinch thing for everyone.

It besides sells acini di pepe, a mini pasta shaped for illustration peppercorns and made of durum wheat, and pastina, different mini pasta utilized mostly successful soups aliases for stuffing into vegetables. Acini di pepe was nan logic we first visited nan shop six years ago, connected nan proposal of a colleague, and astatine a clip erstwhile I was penning a book astir pasta and truthful trying to get my hands connected arsenic galore shapes arsenic possible. On that first sojourn I bought stelline (stars), alfabeto, puntine (dots) and risoni, of course, which is beautiful overmuch nan aforesaid style arsenic orzo, only not called orzo successful Italy, because that connection intends “barley”.

I americium repeating myself, I know, erstwhile I opportunity that bags of pastina are nan astir satisfying bags of pasta to return from nan support and move astir successful your hand, because they descent successful overmuch nan aforesaid measurement arsenic a beanbag does erstwhile it meets a bum. I besides for illustration measuring retired mini pasta shapes, raining them into nan standard or, if you are judge enough, consecutive into a cookware of boiling water. To make this week’s recipe, you request 300g of immoderate mini pasta style (peppercorns, stars, letters, points, orzo) to capable 8 reddish capsicum boats. You besides request to par-cook nan pasta for half nan recommended cooking time, past drain very good and dispersed out, if possible: you don’t want it to proceed cooking, because it has to walk different 40 minutes successful nan oven.

The peppers tin beryllium eaten consecutive away, but they’ll beryllium happily for hours, days even; conscionable support them successful nan fridge if nan hold is longer than a fewer hours, and retrieve to return them retired successful advance. They are wondrous eaten astatine room somesthesia (or quickly reheated), particularly aft a agelong day.

Red peppers stuffed pinch orzo, tuna, capers and herbs

Serves 4

4 medium reddish or/and yellowish peppers, each moreover successful size
300g orzo, aliases different very mini pasta shape
Extra-virgin oliva oil
Butter
1 reddish onion, peeled and diced
1 garlic clove, peeled and minced
1 fistful caller parsley, minced
1 medium-sized tomato, aliases respective cherry tomatoes, finely chopped
100g tuna packed successful oliva oil, drained
1 heaped tbsp small capers
2 anchovy fillets, minced

Cut nan peppers successful half lengthways done nan stalks, scrape retired nan seeds and trim distant immoderate achromatic pith inside. Boil nan orzo successful salted h2o for a half nan recommended cooking clip (if it suggests, say, 10 minutes, navigator it for only five), past drain well.

Working successful a frying pan, lukewarm a fewer tablespoons of oliva lipid and a spot of butter, past fry nan bulb and ail until soft. Add nan par-cooked orzo, parsley, tomato, tuna, capers and anchovies, past sensation and play pinch brackish arsenic needed (it astir apt won’t request much) and generously pinch achromatic pepper.

Fill nan capsicum boats almost to nan brim pinch nan orzo substance and put them snugly successful a suitable baking tray. Spoon 3 tablespoons of h2o and 3 tablespoons of lipid into nan bottommost of nan trat, screen loosely but wholly pinch foil, and cook for 40 minutes, removing nan foil for nan past 10 minutes. Before serving, decorativeness by zigzagging each capsicum pinch a spot of oliva oil, aliases spooning complete immoderate melted food and anchovies, aliases thinning immoderate basil pesto pinch extra-virgin oliva oil, spooning that complete nan peppers and topping each half-pepper pinch a basil leaf.