For today’s pasta I chose to make really nice tomato sauce. This recipe is inspired by my friend from Kazakhstan. When she visited me in Cyprus, she shared with me a secret, which makes tomato sauce really special, tasty and good in texture! Though I made changes to her recipe to make it low-fat and reacher in fiber and proteins, it worked out well and now this sauce is one of my favorites for pasta. Hope you will give it a try and tell me what you think.
When we were doing groceries last time we saw spaghetti 50 cm long, sold with discount. 50 cm! That’s a challenge to cook it without breaking! But I did it! And it was fun)
Do you break spaghetti when you cook? I personally don’t like broken spaghetti, I like it to be long!
Easy Vegan Pasta with Red Lentils
Ingredients
- 170 g Spaghetti (dry)
- 150 g Red Lentils (dry)
- 1 tbsp Olive oil
- 1 medium Onion
- 1 pc Chili (dry)
- 5 medium Tomatoes 5
- 5 cloves Garlic
- 0.5 tsp Turmeric powder
- 1 l Water to cook spaghetti and lentils
For serving:
- 2 tbsp Nutritional yeast (optional)
- 2 tbsp Dill
Instructions
- Cook lentils in 300 ml water (1:2). Usually it takes about 10-15 min to cook.
- Cook spaghetti following instructions on the package.
- Meanwhile preheat the frying pan and add 1 tbsp of olive oil.
- Add finely diced onion and fry till it is golden brown.
- Add chopped chili pepper. I use dried chili, you can use fresh or chili powder or skip this part. Matter of taste)
- Add finely chopped tomatoes. Simmer for about 10 minutes.
- Add finely grated garlic (garlic paste). This is the most important part! Add as much garlic as possible! This will make sauce thick and viscous!
- Add turmeric.
- Once lentils are cooked - add it to the sauce, mix well and simmer for another 5 minutes.Now you can serve spaghetti!
- Add some dill and Nutritional Yeast on top (for "parmesan" kick)
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Notes
*To make the recipe WFPB skip oil (use splashes of water for frying instead) and replace regular spaghetti with whole-grain pasta.Do you like this recipe?
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It’s an amazing article. I really love food and cooking. I can try some recipes and thanks to Anastassiya for sharing great knowledge.
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