Don’t you get tired of eating the same thing over and over again?!?! I do. I love vegetables, but I find myself at loss at finding fun vegetable recipes. Summer offers a large array of vegetables ( corn, tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, summer squash), but I am always cooking them the same way, roasted, or in salads. So it is always nice to find a new recipe that allows you to cook some of those vegetables in a way that is foreign to you.

As I was visiting my twin sister, she introduced me to a vegetable dish that she called ” La peperonata”.

Originally la peperonata is a vegetable stew made of tomatoes, peppers and onions. But my sister made it different as she added peperoni to hers, and this was so so good.

Ingredients for 6-8: 2-3 tbsp of olive oil, 1/2 bag of sliced pepperoni, 2 lbs of roma tomatoes rinsed and quartered, 2 lbs of sweet yellow onions sliced thinly, 2 lbs of red peppers cored and sliced in thin strips, 1 clove of garlic peeled and crushed, 1 tbsp of italian seasoning, 1/2 tsp of salt, 1/4 tsp of pepper.

In a large pot, warm up the olive oil and heat it up over a medium-high heat. When the oil is warm, add the onions and the pepperoni to the pan and saute them. Saute until the onions are golden and translucent. Add the sliced peppers and saute them also for a few minutes. Add the chopped tomatoes, the salt, the pepper and the italian seasoning and bring it all to boil. Be careful to stir so that it will not scorch. Lower the temperature to low, cover the pan with a lid and cook for 30 minutes. Make sure to stir periodically to prevent scorching. Add more salt, and pepper if you deem necessary.

We ate this wonderful vegetable dish with Merguez  ( spicy italian sausages). Yum!!! It is so nice to be home;-)

Bon Appetit and Happy Cooking!!!