Wednesday 12 January 2011

KWW: Alternative Pasta Sauce

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I recentely shared with you how I have been placed on a nightshade restriction. This means I have to really look over any menus and make sure none of the items from the nightshade family is actually included in my meal. I freely admit that sometimes i just eat it anyway, but after my body fought back on new years eve, with cramps, and really bad belly ache, I decided the sweet few minutes of eating those items wasn’t worth the upset stomach.


I love pasta, and since tomatoes come from the nightshade family and they are the ones I seem to have the worst reaction to I have to find an alternative. So I created my own, I remembered when I was younger and first learning to cook that I had a great carrot pasta sauce recipe that came off the back of the box, I never saved it but I decided to try making my own, here is the results:
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Ingredients:

  •  carrots chopped into coin shape
  • 2 ribs celery chopped
  • onion powder, garlic powder, black pepper (to taste)
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic miniced
  • 1 onion roughly chopped
  • 2 green onion(scallions)
  • 1-2 cups water or veggie stock
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Directions:
  • heat pan with olive oil and add minced garlic and onion allow to soften (about five mins)
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  • once softened add in celery, escallion, and carrots, cover and allow to cook down until carrots are semi soft.
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  • if you like mushrooms, now would be the time to put them in, allow them a few minutes to meld with the veggie, add in your seasonings now, give it a few minutes (1-2 mins)
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  • Once that is done, add water and allow to simmer until the water starts to take on the color of the veggies. (15 mins)
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  • Once done, pour liquid and veggies into a blender or a processor, now you can chop to as msooth or as rough as you want, for this one (next time I will too) leave it a little rough, with some veggies are still seen inside.
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  • Return to heat and add any final seasonings you need or want
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Serve over pasta, you can have it plain(like the picture at the start of the post) or with turkey meat(like bwlow)
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Allow to cool and can
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fills one 28oz can you can store in a cool dark place and it will last as long as the seal is done properly, or you can store in the fridge (use within a month) the canning jar I used is a recycled tomato pasta jar (one you buy from the store with the sauce in it), so it was washed and boiled, and when i poured the pasta, it actually sealed.
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Have a blessed and enjoyable meal my loves
Be Blessed
                          
 

1 comment:

  1. There is a recipe from Vegetarian Times that uses roasted red peppers and carrots for a sauce. It's delicious. http://www.vegetariantimes.com/recipes/11383?section=

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