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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.
Course Main Course, Sauce
Cuisine Dairy-free, Egg-free, Gluten-free, International, Nut-free, Soy-free, Vegan, Vegetarian
Keyword healthy spaghetti sauce, hidden veggie sauce, vegetable sauce, veggie pasta sauce
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 4 servings
Calories 182kcal

Ingredients

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.

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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:
What else would you use a veggie spaghetti sauce for? Let us know in the comments. 

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 182kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Sodium: 35mg | Potassium: 622mg | Fiber: 8g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 5318IU | Vitamin C: 23mg | Calcium: 69mg | Iron: 3mg