Pasta and Lentils, Sicilian Style

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• 3 quarts water, positive much arsenic needed to decorativeness cooking the pasta
• 1 mean yellowish bulb (8 ounces), minced, divided
• 2 heavy celery ribs, minced, divided
• 2 1/2 teaspoons good salt, divided
• 1 lb lentils, preferably tiny European brownish oregon greenish lentils, specified arsenic du Puy
• 1/4 cupful extra-virgin olive oil, positive much for serving
• 1 ounce pancetta, minced (2 tablespoons)
• 1 tiny carrot, scrubbed and minced (1/2 cup)
• 1 ample ail clove, minced oregon finely grated
• 1/2 cupful chopped caller flat-leaf parsley
• 1 1/2 cups good-quality herb puree
• 1 tablespoonful herb paste
• 1/4 spoon crushed reddish capsicum flakes, positive much to taste
• 8 ounces regular oregon heavy spaghetti, breached into 2- to 3-inch pieces (may substitute tiny tubular pasta specified arsenic pennette)