Vegan Meatball Pasta Bake
No fuss, easy one pot vegan meatball pasta bake on the table in 40 minutes. Perfect for week night meals and leftovers for lunch the next day. Plant based recipe with home made sauce.
Ingredients
- 1 red onion finely diced
- 4 large cloves garlic finely diced
- 8 vegan 'meat' balls shop bought or home made
- 250 g dried pasta
- 400 g tinned tomatoes
- 500 ml water feel free to boil the water and add a stock cube for extra flavour
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 1/2 tsp sage
- 1/2 tsp thyme
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/2 tsp marjoram
- 1 tsp brown sugar or caster sugar
- Large pinch salt & pepper
- 1 tbsp nutritional yeast optional ingredients to give 'parmesan' style topping
- 50 g grated vegan cheese optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C
- Sweat off the chopped onion and garlic with a glug of olive oil (in an oven proof pan)
- Afer around 5 minutes, add in all of the other ingredients (apart from the cheese and nutritional yeas) stir together then pop in the oven for 35 minutes
- Top with the vegan cheese and continue to bake for a further 5 minutes
- Season again, sprinkle nutritional yeast & enjoy