Food for Thought; Homemade Pasta Sauce

What better to go with Healthy Chicken Meatballs than vitamin and veggie packed homemade pasta sauce. Which actually started out life as clean eating fat busting soup but became a much better homemade pasta sauce.

Homemade Pasta Sauce

Ingredients

1 Sweet Potato
1 stick celery
3 Carrots
1 Onion
2 Cloves Garlic
1 tin chopped tomatoes
Handful red lentils
300ml water
1 tsp dried parsley
1 tsp dried oregano

How To Do It

1. Fry off garlic, celery and onion

image

2. Add sweet potato and carrot to the pan. Put the lid on and sweat for 5 minutes

image

3. Add chopped tomatoes, lentils, water and herbs

image

4. Bring to the boil

5. Transfer to slow cooker and cook on low for 4 hours. Alternatively turn down heat, put lid on and cook on the hob for 90 minutes

6. Blend to a puree and season with salt and pepper

Follow:

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.