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Vegetarian Spaghetti Bolognese

This veggie spaghetti bolognese is full of flavour and is great for dinner, any night of the week.
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time2 hours
Total Time2 hours 20 minutes
Course: Dinner
Keyword: dinner, meat sauce, pasta, tvp

Ingredients

  • 900 g spaghetti approx 1 package

Sautéed Mushrooms

  • 1 tbs olive oil
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 cups mini bella, portobello or cremini mushrooms

Sauce

  • 2 tbs olive oil
  • 1 medium onion
  • 1 tbs salt
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 5 cloves garlic
  • 1 28 oz can whole san marzano tomatoes can sub with other type of whole tomato
  • 1 16 oz can diced tomatoes
  • 1 6 oz can tomato paste
  • 1 cup rehydrated TVP
  • 1 cube beef flavoured stock chicken flavoured would work as well

Instructions

Sauce

  • Thinly slice the onion. Sauté it in a large sauce pot with the olive oil on medium heat until translucent. Add in the garlic, and sauté them until fragrant, about 3 minutes.
  • Add n the salt and sugar and mix in well. Add in the tomato paste and mix well again.
  • Add in the tomato cans, raise heat to medium high to bring it to a simmer. Lower heat to medium low and allow to simmer for up to 2 hours. The longer you can, the better it will taste.

Sautéed Mushrooms

  • In a frying pan add in the 1 tbs of olive oil and salt. Slice the mushrooms and add in to the pan.
  • Mixing every few minutes, allow to sauté until the mushrooms darken to a deep brown, but not burnt.
  • Add into the sauce while it is still sautéing.

TVP

  • While the sauce is cooking you can prepare the TVP to add at the end. Add the TVP to a heat-safe bowl.
  • Boil enough water to just cover the TVP. Add in the Hot water and one cube of beef-flavoured stock. Mix in to ensure that the stock is evenly combined. Let sit until the TVP has absorbed all the stock and water.
    It should be slightly undercooked, so that it can absorb some of the sauce flavour as well.

Serving

  • After the sauce has sautéed for the 2 hours start to cook the pasta in salted water, according to package directions.
  • Add the TVP in and allow to simmer with the sauce as the pasta is cooking.
  • Once cooked, drain and add to the sauce. Mix together well and serve!
    You can top it with some fresh parmesan or other hard cheese as well as crushed red pepper, black pepper and/or fresh basil!