Ravioli with Spicy Mixed Peppers from @MysteryMacRae

This is an easy, tasty, pretty dish that you can make your own by adding or subtracting ingredients. Add asparagus, artichoke hearts, zucchini, tomatoes, or eggplant? Mmm-mm. Cut the onion, garlic and/or red pepper flakes? Sure. Add shrimp or chicken? Go for it. Use fresh herbs instead of dried? Absolutely. Use tortellini instead of ravioli? Of course! Here’s the basic recipe, then let yourself go wild.

Ravioli with Spicy Mixed Peppers 

Ingredients

5 or 6 garlic cloves, minced

1 onion, chopped

4 or 5 bell peppers (in a variety of colors), sliced thin (a food processor speeds this up)

1 package fresh or frozen ravioli (with your choice of filling)

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon red pepper flakes

2 tablespoons dried basil flakes (Notice our mis-labeled jar in the picture. That’s not whole basil!)

2 tablespoons olive oil

 

Directions

Start by bringing water to a boil in a pot big enough to cook the ravioli.

While the ravioli water heats, sauté the onion and garlic, in a large skillet, until soft.

Stir in the salt and red pepper flakes. Sauté for another minute or so.

Stir in the peppers, cover the skillet, and cook until the peppers are soft but not mushy—about 10 minutes.

While the pepper mixture cooks, cook the ravioli according to the package directions and then drain. Stir the ravioli into the pepper mixture, sprinkle with the basil, serve, and enjoy.

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About Argyles and Arsenic:

After 93 well-lived years, Violet MacAskill is ready to simplify her life. Her eccentric solution? She’ll throw a decanting and decluttering party at her family home—a Scottish Baronial manor near the seaside town of Inversgail, Scotland. Violet sets aside everything she wants or needs, then she invites her many friends in to sip sherry and help themselves to whatever they want from all that’s left.

But a murder during Violet’s party leads to a poisonous game of cat and mouse – with the women of Yon Bonnie Books playing to win.

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The Boston Globe says Molly MacRae writes “murder with a dose of drollery.” She’s the author of the award-winning, national bestselling Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries and the Highland Bookshop Mysteries. As Margaret Welch, she writes books for Annie’s Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and she’s a winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction. Visit Molly on Facebook and Pinterest and connect with her on Twitter  or Instagram.