If you’re looking for vegan comfort food, you’ve found the right recipe! This tomato and vegan sausage pasta dish really satisfies my cravings for spaghetti with meatballs or pasta shells with sausage ragu. Perfect for meat-free Monday or a totally vegan meal plan.
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The best vegan sausages in my opinion
Since we have been cutting back on the amount of meat we eat as a family we have tried lots of different veggie and vegan sausages. I mentioned the Richmond ones in my post 10 Vegan Products that I Love as number one as they are an amazing meat substitute in terms of both texture and flavour.
Vegan protein sources
Although we are still not completely vegan in our house, we try to eat plant based for at least half of our meals. I always have a vegan breakfast and I would say 90% of the time my lunches are vegan too. Using meat substitutes like these sausages helps to ensure we get enough protein in our meals. I also like to use a lots of pulses like lentils, chickpeas and beans.
What kind of pasta to use
This recipe works with any pasta shape even spaghetti. This time I used these gluten free casarecce from Sainbury’s which are amazing for holding the sauce but we also love these fusilli corti col buco from Tesco – we call them squiggly pasta because of their curly shape!
Ingredients (to serve 2 adults & 2 children)
300-400g dried pasta
1 pack 6-8 vegan sausages – I use these ones from Richmond
2 tbsp olive oil
1 large or 2 small red onions diced
2 cloves garlic crushed
2 x 400g tins chopped tomatoes
1 tbsp tomato puree
1 vegetable or tomato stock cube
Dash of balsamic vinegar
1 tsp agave syrup
1 heaped tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp dried thyme
Handful torn fresh basil leaves
Good pinch of salt & pepper
Method
Add the olive oil to a large frying pan and fry the onion and garlic until soft.
Add the chopped tomatoes, tomato puree, stock cube, balsamic, agave, oregano and thyme.
Simmer on a low heat for about 30 minutes stiring occasionally.
About 15 minutes before the sauce is ready, start to fry your sausages in a little oil. I use a griddle pan but you could use a normal pan or even grill them.
Boil the pasta as per the packet instructions.
A few minutes before everything is ready add the basil to the sauce and season to taste with salt and pepper. You can blitz the sauce a little if you want at this stage to make it smoother.
Chop the sausages into bitesize pieces and mix into the sauce.
Serve and enjoy!
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Vegan Sausage Pasta
Equipment
- Large frying pan
- Large Saucepan
- Griddle pan
Ingredients
- 300-400 g pasta of choice
- 6-8 vegan sausages
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1-2 red onions
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 2 tins chopped tomatoes
- 1 tbsp tomato puree
- 1 tomato or vegetable stock cube
- 1 tsp balsamic vinegar
- 1 tsp agave syrup (or sugar)
- 1 heaped tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- 1 handful basil leaves
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Add the olive oil to a large frying pan and fry the onion and garlic until soft.
- Add the chopped tomatoes, tomato puree, stock cube, balsamic, agave, oregano and thyme.
- Simmer on a low heat for about 30 minutes stiring occasionally.
- About 15 minutes before the sauce is ready, start to fry your sausages in a little oil. I use a griddle pan but you could use a normal pan or even grill them.
- Boil the pasta as per the packet instructions.
- A few minutes before everything is ready add the basil to the sauce and season to taste with salt and pepper. You can blitz the sauce a little if you want at this stage to make it smoother.
- Chop the sausages into bitesize pieces and mix into the sauce.
- Serve and enjoy!
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Yummy – we are eating more and more vegan food and this one can go on the menu. #kcacols
Hope you enjoy it, we really love this dinner x
This sounds delicious! We’ve actually got sausage for tea tonight so may make this.
Katrina x
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Thank you! Hope you enjoy it x
We have vegan friends and vegan girlfriends to our kids so i find I’m learning a lot of new recipies. I usually make my sausages but these ones look worth a try. #KCACOLS
They are the best we have tried and if my partner approves they must be ok!
This sounds absolutely delicious.
Thank you, we think so but we’re biased!!
Looks tasty. We often have vegan food. I much prefer vegan sausages. #kcacols
Thanks so much for linking up at #KCACOLS. Hope you come back again next time @WithFranca @momof2lgs
This vegan sausage pasta is so damn good, great recipe delicious as well as healthy. Will recommend this to my mother who is a vegetarian.
This looks lovely – thanks for sharing #cookblogshare