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Vegan Creamy Tomato Pasta Sauce

A creamy tomato sauce that's fresh but still the right level of rich and cheesy, ready in under 20 minutes if you make your base sauce in advance, and delicious served with a rustic artisan shape like trofie or orecchiette.
Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 30 mins
Total Time 40 mins
Course Main Course
Cuisine Italian
Servings 1 large portio plus plenty of tomato sauce to store
Calories 800 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 small pot
  • 1 medium sized pot
  • 1 chopping knife

Ingredients
  

  • 2 medium garlic cloves
  • 750 ml tomato passata
  • 2 tbsp Belmorso Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste
  • 5 leaves fresh or frozen basil plus a few extra leaves to garnish
  • 150 gr Belmorso Trofie
  • 100 ml bechamel we are using packed dairy free Valsoia besciamella
  • 2 tbsp vegan parmesan cheese grated

Instructions
 

  • Take out all your ingredients before you start cooking.
    ingredients for your creamy tomato pasta sauce
  • Peel and cut the garlic cloves in half
    prepare the garlic
  • Pour the passata into your small pot, season with salt and pepper, add the garlic and the handful of basil.
    pour passata into your pot
  • Mix and put on the stove to simmer for 30 minutes. Make sure to cover with a lid and lower the heat. You can mix from time to time. I didn't need to, but this might differ from the type of stove and pot being used.
    simmer tomato sauce
  • After 20 minutes, fill a pot with water, season with plenty of salt, and let it boil.
  • Next, add your trofie to cook, following the packaging instructions. Belmorso trofie take about 13 minutes to cook and still stay aldente. However, if you like them extra aldente you can cook them for just 10 minutes.
    cook the trofie pasta
  • Take the tomato passata off the heat, add the extra virgin olive oil and mix.
    Italian basil tomato sauce is ready
  • Drain the trofie and leave some water aside, about 1/4 of a glass.
    drain the trofie
  • Transfer the trofie in the same pot you cooked it. Add the cooked tomato passata, as much as you want. We added about 7 tablespoons.
  • Then add some trofie water, the bechamel, a pinch of nutmeg, and the grated parmesan cheese. Mix everything in the pot over low heat for a few minutes.
    mix in the creamy tomato pasta sauce
  • Take off the heat and serve. Drizzle some extra EVOO and finish with more basil.
    serving creamy tomato pasta sauce with trofie
  • You can store the rest of the tomato sauce in two separate containers; store one in the fridge and one in the freezer.

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Notes

If you want to cut the calories, just reduce the trofie to 100 gr and add mix in some vegetables. Boiled or roasted courgettes go really nice with this.
The sauce should be enough to make two more plates of this trofie, top one pizza, and make some bruschetta.
It lasts well for up to 3 days in the fridge, and for several weeks in the freezer.
Keyword creamy, quick dinner, tomato pasta, vegan