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italian pasta recipes: pappardelle in red pepper sauce with smoked bacon
Here’s a fantastically autumnal pasta recipe - a smokey red pepper and pecorino sauce with smoked bacon.
After Turkish Ajvar, my other inspiration for this sauce was classic Italian Amatriciana, which, as you all know, is simply a tomato sauce with guanciale and pecorino stirred through it. For this Bonfire Night variation, we’re going to stir pecorino through an Ajvar inspired sauce, then throw in shards of smoked bacon and make it taste even more Iike a bonfire with a lit
Mark Gowen
Oct 12, 2025
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