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Ingredients

Make Sauce

  • red peppers (2),sliced thin
  • onion (1),sliced thin
  • olive oil (3 tbsp)
  • Calabrian Chilli (5),seeded
  • Calabrian Chilli (1 tbsp),Oil from jar
  • red pepper flakes (1/2 tsp)
  • garlic cloves (2),sliced thin
  • tomato paste (2 tbsp)
  • heavy cream (1/2 cup),Can replace with whole milk @ 2x?
  • Italian ground pork (1 pound),i like spicy, fennel is important
  1. To remove the skin of the peppers, coat with a touch of oil and then place in the oven under the broilers and cook until the skin starts to char slightly, moving the peppers around until evenly charred all the way around. You don’t need too much char for this. That smokey char is not a flavor I want to emphasize in this dish.
    1. Once charred, place in a bowl and cover in plastic wrap and let it steam for 15 minutes. While that steams, prep the rest of the ingredients.
  2. Slice the onion and garlic thinly, measure out the chili flake and seed the Calabrian Chili and leave them whole along with a little of the oil they were packed in.
  3. By now the peppers should be steamed. Using your knife, scrape the skin off the peppers, remove the seeds and stem, and cut them into thin slices.
  4. Add a few tablespoons of olive oil and then get the onions in first to get them going. Season with salt and once softened and begins to turn translucent,
  5. add the peppers. Cook for a few minutes until the onions are fully translucent and soft and starting to brown slightly.
  6. Then add the garlic, chili flake, Calabrian chilis and cook until the garlic softens and begins to slightly brown around the edges.
  7. Cook Italian Sausage
  8. Then add two tablespoons of tomato paste and then incorporate that into the vegetables and cook for 2-3 minutes.
  9. Then add the pint of cream, lower the heat to medium and cook for about 5 minutes or until the cream has thickened.
  10. Let cool slightly and then blend until smooth.
  11. add Italian sausage to sauce and simmer with lid covered.
  12. add freshly cooked pasta to the sauce and mix