Carrot Bolognese Recipe - Elephantastic Vegan

Carrot Bolognese is one of my favorite easy, no-fuss meals! You only need a handful of ingredients and 20 minutes of time!

I’m going to start this post with 5 reasons why this carrot bolognese sauce won my heart (and will win yours too!):

It’s SO easy. Boil pasta. Add onions, garlic, and carrots in a food processor. Blitz it up. Cook the veggies until softened, add tomato sauce, herbs, spices, the pasta. Stir & serve.
You don’t need a lot of ingredients. And by a lot, I also mean you don’t need fresh ingredients except carrots, onion, and garlic, which I always have at home anyways.
It’s super versatile, not only can you add different veggies (mushrooms? zucchini? kale?) but you can serve the sauce with pasta, use it in lasagne, or as a dip for tortilla chips!
It’s actually healthy! Usually my “ugggghhh-I-don’t-wanna-cook-but-need-to-eat-something”-meals aren’t the healthiest ones. This one is a nice change!
It’s SO fast! You could make the sauce while the pasta is cooking (so this whole meal can be ready in 15 minutes) but I usually use the same pot for the sauce in which I made the pasta in (fewer dishes), then it will take about 20 minutes. Which is also faster than getting food delivered.

I’m making this recipe A LOT lately. I’ve never met a person who eats more carrots than my boyfriend and he also LOVES this carrot bolognese. It’s healthy, quick to make, doesn’t need a ton of ingredients, so what’s not to love about it? 🙂

How to make Carrot Bolognese

The Ingredients

You will need:

pasta
carrots
onion (red/white/whatever you have at home)
garlic
tomato purée/passata
salt
fresh oregano
olive oil

The Basic Steps

boiled pasta — Step 1: Boil the pasta. Bonus points for whole wheat pasta!

onions, garlic and carrots in a food processor — Step 2: Add the carrots, onion, and garlic cloves to your food processor.
(When I shot the photos I only made half a portion, so you will have more carrots, and garlic in the food processor when you make 2 portions as given in the recipe.)

cooking onions, garlic and onions — Step 4: Add the veggies to a pot with olive oil (you can use the pasta pot after the pasta is cooked or another pot) and let them cook on medium to high heat until the carrots are soft.

carrot bolognese sauce in a pot — Step 5: Reduce the heat and add the tomato purée/passata, salt, and oregano.

adding pasta to carrot bolognese sauce — Step 6: Add the cooked pasta.

Carrot Bolognese in a pot — Step 7: Stir to combine. Heat it up until everything is warm!

Sprinkle the pasta with nutritional yeast flakes! <3

This is it! Delicious, healthy Carrot Bolognese.

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Cheers, Bianca