Fast & Tasty Tomato Pasta with Olives & Baby Spinach Recipe

You don’t have to succumb to grabbing an unhealthy takeaway when you have a few quick recipes up your sleeve to call on when you get home from work. You can have a restaurant-quality dinner on the table in 20 minutes.

Serves: 4

GF, VG

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Ingredients

  • 250 grams wholemeal or gluten-free spaghetti (dry weight)
  • 8 tomatoes, roughly chopped
  • 1 onion, roughly chopped
  • 8 cloves garlic, peeled
  • 1 cup sundried tomatoes (not in oil)
  • 1 tbsp vegan vegetable stock powder
  • 2 tbsp coconut sugar
  • ½ tsp dried Italian herbs
  • 2 tbsp capers
  • 20 Kalamata olives
  • 2 tbsp sambal oelek (less or omit for less heat)
  • 8 cups baby spinach leaves
  • 4 tbsp nutritional yeast, to serve (optional)

Method


  • Place a pan of water on a high heat and once boiling, add the spaghetti.
  • Into a high-powered blender, add the tomatoes, onion, garlic and sundried tomatoes, then blend to a purée.
  • Heat a large frying pan on a high heat. Pour the purée into the hot frying pan and stir. If you need to add more water, use some of the cooking water from the pasta.
  • Add the vegan stock powder and stir. Turn the heat down to low and let it simmer.
  • Add the coconut sugar, Italian herbs, capers, olives and sambal oelek and stir.
  • Add the spinach and stir through.
  • Drain the spaghetti and add it to the pan, stir through.
  • Serve in a bowl with nutritional yeast sprinkled over the top (optional).

  

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