Recipe: Pasta Bake with Danish Bacon | Hellers NZs Butcher

Ingredients

• 500g pack large pasta e.g. Rigatoni (I used Zitone #19)
• ¼ cup olive oil
• 1 large white onion medium dice
• 4 garlic cloves finely chopped
• 250g Hellers Danish Eye Bacon roughly chopped
• 1 carrot peeled and finely diced
• 1 eggplant peeled and roughly chopped into dice
• 1 red pepper diced
• 1 tbsp capers (optional)
• 15 each Kalamata olives (optional)
• 1 tsp each oregano, rosemary and thyme
• 2 x 400g cans of chopped Italian tomatoes in thick sauce
• 1 cup shaved parmesan
• A handful of chopped Italian parsley
• Olive oil
• Cracked pepper and sea salt