Ed’s recipesA kitchen notebookPacked lunchesBasket 0

EVERYDAY PACKED LUNCH

Roasted pepper & white-bean pasta

Roasted vegetables become a smooth sauce, with white beans for a substantial vegetarian pasta lunch.

Serves
4 generously
From scratch
55 min
Morning with prep done
10–12 min
Jump to method ↓

AI illustration of Roasted pepper & white-bean pasta
AI-generated visual reference · not a photograph of a tested recipe.

Ingredients

4 generous portions · metric quantities

  • 350 g dried short pasta
  • 400 g red peppers, deseeded and cut into strips
  • 500 g tomatoes, quartered
  • 150 g onion, peeled and sliced
  • 6 g garlic, peeled
  • 25 ml olive oil
  • 480 g drained cooked white beans
  • 10 g basil leaves
  • 100 ml water, plus reserved pasta water as needed
  • 3 g salt, or to taste
  • 1 g black pepper

Method

  1. Roast

    Oven + large baking tray

    Heat oven to 220°C conventional / 200°C fan. Spread peppers, tomatoes, onion and garlic on a tray; toss with olive oil. Roast for 25–30 minutes until tender and browned at the edges.

  2. Cook pasta

    Saucepan + colander

    Cook pasta according to its packet. Reserve 250 ml cooking water before draining.

  3. Blend the sauce

    Bimby TM7

    Let roasted vegetables cool until no longer hot. Put them and their tray juices in the mixing bowl with 100 ml water and half the beans. Stay below the bowl maximum fill mark. Fit lid; blend 30 sec / speed 5, without heat, then check texture. Blend another 10 seconds if desired.

  4. Heat and finish

    Large saucepan

    Transfer sauce to the saucepan with remaining beans. Heat gently, stirring, until piping hot. Add pasta, torn basil, salt and pepper. Loosen with reserved pasta water to make a generous coating sauce. Divide into four portions.

Kitchen notes

Contains wheat. This is a make-ahead lunch; roasting and cooling the sauce is not a ten-minute morning job. Freeze sauce separately for best texture.

Recipe development draft; not yet kitchen-tested. Timings are guides: check texture and doneness. Bimby settings are manual settings, not an official Guided Cooking programme.