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Pasta sauce is a delicious and easy way to add more vegetables to your family&#39;s meals. Loaded with tomatoes, spinach, zucchini, bell pepper, carrots, and onions, this homemade Veggie Pasta Sauce can be enjoyed chunky or pureed smooth to help even the most selective of eaters enjoy their veggies!

Easy Veggie-Loaded Pasta Sauce (from scratch!)

olive oil

onion

sea salt (or

garlic powder (or

Italian seasoning

zucchini (grated)

carrots (grated)

½ bell pepper

spinach,

tomatoes

tomato paste

vegetable broth (water)

bay leaves

Place a large saucepan over medium heat and heat up the oil. Once the oil is hot, add the onions, garlic powder, salt, and Italian seasoning. Saute for about 4 minutes or until onions are translucent.

Add zucchini, carrots, bell pepper, and spinach to the pot. Saute the veggies until they are softened, about 5 minutes.

Add the tomatoes, tomato paste, bay leaves, and stock to the pot. Stir until combined and cover. Once sauce starts to boil, lower heat to a simmer and cook UNCOVERED for 15 minutes.

Once done cooking, remove bay leaves.  Use an immersion blender to puree the sauce to preferred consistency. If you can, use a regular blender to blend this sauce in batches, but transfer it carefully as it will be hot!

Taste and add extra salt or garlic powder if desired.

Serve over your favorite pasta or spiralized veggie. Enjoy as is or add cooked ground meat or meatballs. 

Allow leftover sauce to completely cool before transferring it to an air-tight container. Store in fridge for up to 6 days or freeze to have on hand for months to come. 

Every time I need sauce my first instinct is buy it already made. Since I have found your recipe I have never bought jar sauce again. I always thought it had to be an all day process simmering it. Now to have homemade sauce with hidden veggies under 30 minutes is so life changing. Thank you so much for sharing 🥰

I’ve never commented on a recipe but this is good. I’m not even a good cook and manage to mess up simple recipes but it was easy and even my family liked it. It does make a lot of sauce like reviewers say so plenty for leftovers or another day of pasta making. Versatile recipe. I made mine with 1 zucchini, I red bell pepper, two carrots, 1 beet, 2 handfuls of spinach and a quarter of an onion ( I happen to have a juicer so I juiced it first minus the onion and used the pulp to make the sauce then after cooking I put it all in a blender). 

Love the recipe! This is so delicious! Thank you!

Absolutely delicious! Our immersion blender didn't get it smooth enough so the tip for using the blender instead was great - turned out delicious!

This was delicious! My 3 year old who does not like veggies kept saying "yum this is delicious!". And my husband who is kind of a food snob that it was a very tasty recipe. It will definitely be in our dinner rotation 😊

Honest question: Why do we shred the zucchini and carrots + chop bell pepper to cook down, when they will get blended eventually anyway? What is the downside to blending the (raw) zucchini, carrots, spinach, pepper, tomatoes, and tomato paste, with cooked onions up front and then simmering the sauce? I get that the onions need to be caramelized a bit for sweetness and flavor first. I would not mind skipping the grating and chopping in favor of the Vitamix, though. :) 

This is a delicious recipe. For variety, I sometimes swap out the Italian seasoning for a little (1/2-3/4 tsp) smoked paprika. With some canned tomatoes, I find it necessary to add 1-2 tbsp of butter at the end to reduce the acidity. 

This recipe was seriously amazing!  So flavorful with all the different vegetables, and yet familiar like a traditional pasta sauce.  I added meat to it and used beef broth instead of water/veg broth, but otherwise, followed the recipe as written.  I will definitely be making this again.  Thank you, Taesha!

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