Vegan Pasta
Quick and easy vegan pasta with creamy vegan sauce makes a perfect quick dinner that takes less than 20 minutes.
Servings: 2 people
Ingredients
For the sauce
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion (chopped/sliced) or 1 tsp onion powder
- 4 garlic cloves minced
- 1½ tbsp flour
- 1½ cup plant-based milk
- 2 tsp Italian seasonings mix
- ½ tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp chili flakes
- 2 fresh parsley leaves finely chopped
Instructions
Cooking the pasta
- Take 3/4th water (appx 1 ltr) in a large sauce pan or cooking bowl.
- Bring it to a boil. Add 1 tbsp salt.
- Now add the pasta to the boiling water.
- Again bring it to a boil and cook until the pasta is cooked al dente.
- This will take around 5 - 8 minutes depending on what pasta you are cooking.
- Once done remove from the water by passing through a sieve or colander.
Make the pasta sauce
- Heat olive oil in a pan or skillet.
- Now add minced garlic and chopped or sliced onion to the pan. S
- Saute till translucent.
- Here you can add any vegetable of choice too. The most popular ones are mushrooms, broccoli, spinach leaves.
- Then add a tbsp flour to the pan and stir nicely.
- Now pour any plant-based milk slowly and keep stirring to avoid making any lumps in the sauce.
- Now bring the mixture to a simmer.
- Add the seasonings, nutritional yeast to the prepared sauce.
- Simmer till you reach a desired creamy consistency.
Mix the pasta and sauce
- Add the cooked pasta to the sauce and mix them all gently.
- Simmer for another minute and turn off heat.
- Add some more chopped fresh parsley leaves to the pasta.
- You can also add some chili flakes to the pasta.
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Notes
You can add more milk and a little more flour to make more sauce to the pasta. I have just enough of the sauce to coat the pasta nicely since I don't like more sauce in our pasta. You can add more as per the taste.