Beetroot Pasta Sauce

This creamy and healthy Beetroot Pasta Sauce recipe is super easy to make and has only 5 ingredients! Making a sauce out of vegetables is also an easy way to add some extra veggies into your diet.

There’s just something special about that beautiful deep purple colour. And just look at how luxurious looking it becomes once it coats the tagliatelle. It’s such a simple dish, yet so comforting and delicious. If you are in need of some comfort food but you also want to fuel your body with something healthy, a bowl of (whole wheat) pasta with our Beetroot Pasta Sauce will do exactly that.

And because it’s such a simple recipe, there’s also a lot of room for variation. You can add some extra vegetables for example and/or add some lentils or cannellini beans. If you are feeling a bit fancy you can – like we did – most definitely top it all off with some fresh basil and our easy homemade vegan parmesan.

• Plant milk – a creamy and healthy base for this Beetroot Pasta Sauce recipe.
• Beets – as far as we are concerned, beets are seriously underrated. They are really versatile and super delicious and healthy at the same time. In this particular recipe, they form the base of the sauce together with the plant milk.
• Nutritional yeast (aka nooch) – adds some lovely nutty and savory taste.
• Tahini – makes the sauce extra rich and creamy. Just a little goes a long way.
• Lemon – helps to balance out the sweet and earthy flavour of the beets.

• Not an actual cooking tip necessarily, but very important nonetheless. When buying/using plant milk for this recipe, do NOT use sweetened plant milk. Otherwise you might end up with a sauce that tastes more like dessert. Which I’m not even sure of if that would be a bad thing.
• If you don’t have a (regular) blender at home, you can also use a hand blender to make the sauce.

• Tahini – you can swap tahini for sunflower butter, cashew butter or almond butter.
• Lemon juice – instead of lemon juice you could use lime juice or apple cider vinegar.
• Vegetables – when serving with pasta, you can add extra vegetables as you please. We like to have this with ovenroasted broccoli, but other good options are spinach, zucchini, peas and asparagus.

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