Rigatoni Bolognese
Mix up this dinner this week by serving your family this rigatoni bolognese recipe, a guaranteed crowd pleaser!
See the recipe below.
By Healthy Diet
Serves: 4 Cooking Time: 35 minutes
Ingredients
For the ragu:
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 white onion, diced
- ½ cup celery, finely diced
- ½ cup carrots, finely diced
- 1 tsp garlic puree
- 1 tbsp applesauce
- 1 tbsp tomato puree
- 1 tbsp sundried tomatoes, chopped
- ⅓ cup red wine
- 1 cup passata
- 1 tin plum tomatoes
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup button mushrooms, finely chopped
- 1 tsp italian herbs + ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
- 1 cup cooked lentils
For the almond parm:
- ½ cup flaked almonds
- ½ tsp garlic puree
- ½ tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
- ¼ tsp sea salt
To serve:
- 350g Rigatoni
Method
- Add oil to pre-heated pan. Toss in white onion and cook for 2-3 minutes, until transluscent. Add celery, carrots and cook down for 5 minutes. Add garlic puree, apple sauce, tomato puree and sundried tomatoes and stir to combine.
- Add red wine and cook down, for 1-2 minutes. Then add the passata, plum tomatoes, water, chopped mushrooms, salt and italian herbs and let simmer for 20-25 minutes. Stir in walnuts and cooked lentils.
- To make the almond parm, toss flaked almonds, garlic puree, lemon juice, nutritional yeast and salt into a blender. Pulse for 30 seconds, until you reach a crumb texture.
- Boil 350g rigatoni. Once cooked, combine with ragu and serve. Top with almond parm.
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