5-Minute Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
This quick and easy roasted red pepper sauce takes five minutes to make! It’s a no-cook sauce recipe – just pop the ingredients in a blender, and it’s ready to go. It’s creamy, rich, and perfect with pasta.
Around this time last year, I shared a really simple blender pasta sauce that takes all of five minutes to make, requires no cooking, and is creamy without any dairy. And guess what? I’m back with a new version: creamy roasted red pepper sauce.
The previous version was a tomato-based sauce, and this shiny new sauce is made with roasted red peppers. Like the inspiration recipe, it has a creamy texture created with almonds – no cream, milk, or half and half required.
It’s loaded with fresh herbs, some Parm, and a hit of garlic and doesn’t take hardly any time. In other words, a perfect weeknight sauce.
Ingredients
- Roasted red bell peppers: Buy the kind in a jar and drain them.
- Parmesan cheese
- Olive oil
- Almonds: I use sliced almonds so they’re easier to blend. Also, be sure to use plain ones that aren’t roasted.
- Garlic: If you aren’t a big fan of raw garlic you can omit it or reduce the amount to one clove.
- Fresh herbs: I add fresh parsley and basil leaves.
- Kosher salt
How to Make It
It’s as simple as putting all of the ingredients in a blender and processing them until smooth—no chopping and no cooking required.
I use my high-powered blender, which makes it really smooth, but you can also use a regular blender or food processor. If the nuts aren’t completely pureed, you can strain the sauce so it’s smooth.
Ways to Use It
The obvious choice is eating directly from the bowl (at least a few spoonfuls), but it’s perfect with pasta. I’ve had it with cooked ziti and cheese tortellini – add it while the pasta is hot and toss it together.
You can spoon it over cooked veggies like roasted potatoes, broccoli, asparagus, and cauliflower.
I think it would make an amazing pizza sauce!
You can also drizzle it over cooked chicken, pork, or steak or use it as a sauce for Italian-style meatballs. It’d be delicious with my chicken spinach meatballs, too.
I love it is as a red pepper pasta sauce with a nice parsley and Parmesan cheese garnish. It’s simple, delicious, and ready in about 10 minutes.
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5-Minute Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
It doesn’t get any easier than this no-cook sauce. No chopping and no cooking required! All of the ingredients are blended together and ready to serve. Plus, the sauce gets its creamy texture from almonds – you don’t need any heavy cream, milk, or half and half.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 1 1/2 cups 1x
- Category: Sauces
- Method: Blend
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 1 (12-ounce) jar of roasted red peppers, drained and rinsed
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup sliced or slivered almonds
- 1/4 cup fresh basil leaves
- 1/4 cup fresh parsley leaves
- 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- Place the ingredients in a blender or food processor and blend until smooth.
- Toss the sauce with cooked pasta or rice, or drizzle it over cooked veggies or meat.
- Leftover sauce will keep well in the refrigerator for a couple of days.
Notes
If you’re not a huge fan of garlic, reduce the amount to one clove, or you can omit it. Raw garlic is pretty pungent (and delicious, in my opinion), so do what you like best.
If you don’t have a high-powered blender, you can use a regular blender or food processor. If the sauce is not smooth enough, strain it into a bowl.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/4 cup
- Calories: 136
- Sugar: 2.6g
- Sodium: 267.3mg
- Fat: 12g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 9.6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 4.9g
- Fiber: 1.8g
- Protein: 2.8g
- Cholesterol: 2.4mg
The nutrition is an estimate only. It was calculated using Nutrifox, an online nutrition calculator.
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Happy cooking!
This looks so yummy – can’t wait to try it!
Definitely easy and definitely wonderful on pasta!