my homemade meat spaghetti sauce<\/a> and you’ll recognize the bones of it. But it stands on its own. Seven vegetables, grated tofu, and nothing borrowed from a meat recipe except the method.<\/p>\n\ud83e\uddc0 Grated tofu is the whole reason it says Bolognese<\/h3>\n
People want to know what the best meat substitute for spaghetti sauce<\/strong> is, and for me the answer is extra-firm tofu run over the big holes of a box grater. It comes off in short strands with the grain of ground beef, and it holds that shape all the way through the simmer. That’s the only reason the word Bolognese sits in the title. So why no TVP? Because I’ve never really tested it. I love tofu, and that was reason enough. The first time I fed it to my kids, they thought they were eating a regular meat sauce. When I told them it was vegetarian, they had a hard time believing me.<\/p>\n\ud83e\udd55 Seven vegetables, a big batch, a freezer full of dinners<\/h3>\n
Onion, garlic, celery, carrots, zucchini, spinach, mushrooms. I like a lot of vegetables, that’s the reason. My kids like it. Then again, my kids like everything. The recipe makes 10 servings, roughly 3.5 to 4 litres (14 to 16 cups) once it has reduced, which is a lot of containers. That’s the point. Eat it tonight, freeze the rest, and weeknight suppers are handled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\ud83c\udf5d It came straight out of my meat spaghetti sauce My homemade meat spaghetti sauce is so good that I figured I needed the same thing for the friends of mine who don’t eat meat. That’s where this vegetarian spaghetti sauce comes from. Same pot, same long simmer, same logic. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"vegetarian spaghetti sauce","_yoast_wpseo_title":"Vegetarian spaghetti sauce recipe, meatless tofu bolognese","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"A vegetarian spaghetti sauce built on grated extra-firm tofu and seven vegetables. Big batch, freezes well, nobody guesses it's meatless.","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"recipe_category":[180,167,177,188],"sponsorship":[],"class_list":["post-785","recipe","type-recipe","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","recipe_category-pastas-noodles","recipe_category-main-dishes","recipe_category-vegetarian-dishes","recipe_category-bases-sauces"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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