Sailboat Galley – Pasta Alla Vecchia Bettola

Penne Alla vodka is a pasta dish made with vodka and penne pasta, usually made with heavy cream, crushed tomatoes, onions, and sometimes sausage, pancetta, and peas. Penne Alla vodka.

You chew your penne or rigatoni alla vodka, and the vodka particles waft flavorful aromas to the back of your mouth, creating a heightened sense of euphoric enjoyment of food.

Pasta Alla Vecchia Bettola is made with a creamy roasted tomato vodka sauce. Slow roasting the tomatoes is what gives the recipe its intensity of flavor. Cream—in this case, cashew cream—is what helps to keep it just light enough.

It’s basically a penne alla vodka but, by baking it in the oven, you concentrate all the flavors: my tomato mixture came out looking a little burnt around the edges you’ll see the pictures in a moment but, in fact, that just gave it character like the charred bits you leave on a roasted red pepper.