Veggie packed bolognese

Recipe provided by Steph Geddes

 

Serves 4-6

Ingredients

1 x onion

2 x garlic cloves

2 sprigs rosemary

1 x celery stalk

1 x red capsicum

1 cup mushrooms 

1 x carrot

1 x broccoli

1/3 cup sun dried tomatoes (optional)

2 x cans or 2 cups cooked lentils, drained and rinsed

1 x 400g jar tomato passata  

1 x can diced tomatoes

2 handfuls of spinach

1 handful of basil

2 x zucchini, mandolined/spiralised

1/2 packet wholegrain or pulse pasta

Parmesan to serve if desired 

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Method

  1. Roughly chop the onion and veggies into large chunks. Place the onion, garlic and rosemary into a food processor and process until finely chopped. Add to a large pot/fry pan on medium heat with 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil. Meanwhile add the celery, capsicum, mushrooms, carrot, broccoli and sundried tomatoes to the food processor and pulse until finely chopped.  

  2. Add the veggies to the pot and cook for 5 minutes before adding the lentils, passata, diced tomatoes (and if yours needs more liquid then add some stock/water). Meanwhile put a pot of water on for the pasta (use a steamer pot) and cook according to packet instructions. In the final few minutes add the zucchini pasta to the steamer and steam over the pasta cooking (you can throw into the pasta water if you want but steamer will retain more nutrients), then drain the pasta and mix the zucchini pasta in with it.  

  3. Finally add the spinach and basil to the pasta sauce (you can leave this sauce to simmer for as long as you like but no doubt you have hungry tummies to feed), once the spinach has wilted serve it up with your pasta and Parmesan on top if you desire.