Description
This is such a versatile sauce full of flavour and lots of hidden vegetables. Serve it over pasta for an easy meal. It also makes a great pizza base sauce or for sauce to go on your scrolls with some cheese, spinach and capsicum. I make up a batch when I have veggies to use up and then I freeze it. It’s a very quick meal for those hectic nights.
Ingredients
Scale
- 10g oil
- 8 slices of shortcut bacon, cut into chunks (use less if you don’t want a strong bacon flavour)
- 1 onion, peeled and quartered
- 2 cloves of garlic, peeled
- 1 zucchini, diced
- 3 carrots, diced into small pieces
- 60g spinach leaves
- 600g tinned diced tomatoes
- 80g tomato paste
- 1–2 tablespoons vegetable stock concentrate, to taste
- 1 tmx measuring cup of water
- 1/4 bunch of parsley, roughly broken up with fingers
Instructions
- Place onion, bacon and garlic into bowl.
- Blitz on speed 8 until fine.
- Scrape down.
- Add oil.
- Cook for 5 mins on steaming temperature, speed 2.
- Add zucchini, carrot, tomatoes, water, stock and paste.
- Cook for 15 mins on steaming temperature, speed 2.
- Add parsley and spinach. If you find it’s very thick, thin it with one tmx measuring cup of water. It’s dependent on your tastes.
- Cook for 3 mins on steaming temperature, speed 2.
- Once done slowly blitz up to speed 9. Blitz for 25 seconds until smooth.
- Serve over pasta or as a pizza base sauce.
Notes
- Those with a Thermomix will know their steaming temperature as Varoma temperature. Other machines will know it as the steaming or ST temperature.
- Prep Time: 5
- Cook Time: 25