Vegetable Pasta Sauce (7 Hidden Veggies)
This healthy vegetable sauce is loaded with SEVEN different veggies (including a legume for extra protein) and blended into a creamy hidden veggie pasta sauce. It is so delicious and smooth. I guarantee you that even your picky eaters will lick the bowl. This is by far our daughters' favorite sauce for spaghetti.
Servings 4 servings
Calories 182kcal
Equipment
- Cast-iron Dutch Oven (3-quart / 2.8 liter)
- Stockpot
- our Vitamix A2300
- Regular blender
- Immersion hand blender with 20 fl oz container
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp Olive oil
- 1 Onion (medium)
- 2-3 cloves Garlic
- 2 Zucchini 350 g
- 2 Carrots (medium) 100 g
- 1 Celery stalk 35 g
- Sieved tomato puree aka Tomato sauce 700 g
- ½ tsp Oregano dried
- ½ tsp Basil dried
- 1 + ½ cup Chickpeas (canned)
- 1 Tbsp Nutritional yeast
- Salt and Pepper to taste
Instructions
Prepare the ingredients
- Peel and chop onion and garlic.
- Wash and chop celery.
- Wash, peel, and chop carrots and zucchini.
Let's make veggie pasta sauce
- Heat a stockpot or a Dutch oven to medium heat and add olive oil.
- Cook chopped onion for 1-2 minutes, add chopped garlic and cook for a few seconds.
- Add sliced carrots. Stir and cook for 5-6 minutes.
- Add zucchini cubes with salt (it will help to release the moisture in the zucchini).
- Add black pepper, dried basil, and oregano and stir until combined.
- Add celery stalk and stir again.
- Add tomato sauce and cook veggies until soft.
- Finally, add canned chickpeas without water and cook for 1-2 minutes until they warm up. Add nutritional yeast (optional) and stir. Now, the veggies are ready for blending.
- Add all veggies to a blender and blend until you get a creamy veggie pasta sauce.
Video
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Notes
What other veggies can you add?
I would happily add any of the following veggies: other root vegetables (parsnip, rutabaga, celeriac) instead of carrots or celery. There is also some room to add 2-3 medium-sized root veggies in addition to the above list without altering the taste. However, the more veggies you add, the lesser will the sauce taste as a tomato sauce.What else can you add?
You can certainly add other legumes (lentils or beans) to make the sauce loaded with even more protein. However, to keep it as a tomato spaghetti sauce, we recommend sticking with chickpeas or white/cannellini beans as they have the least beany taste.How to use this vegetable pasta sauce?
You can use this pasta sauce as you would use any store-bought tomato sauce:- Top your pasta instead of vegan spaghetti bolognese
- Serve this sweet potato gnocchi with it
- Add it to meatballs (like vegan eggplant meatballs, vegan mushroom meatballs or vegan chickpea meatballs)
- Layer it within this vegan lasagna
- Spread it on pizza instead of a vegan marinara sauce or our no-cook vegan pizza sauce
- Add it to vegan chili bean instead of a tomato sauce
- Use it in ratatouille or vegan chickpea shakshuka
- Add it to vegan stuffed portobello mushrooms, peppers, butternut squash or zucchini stuffing