A quick and simple vegan sun-dried tomato pasta sauce that packs all the punches in terms of flavour. Spiced with chipotle chillies, loaded with veggies and with a crunchy protein hit from the walnuts this sauce is a cut above.
There's something about the intensity of flavour in sun-dried tomatoes that has put them near the top of the leaderboard in my favourite vegan ingredients.
Adding some chopped sun-dried tomatoes to a simple pasta sauce improves the flavour an astonishing amount.
I've combined them in this sun-dried tomato pasta sauce recipe with crunchy, nutrient-packed walnuts and smoky chipotle chilli flakes for a flavour sensation I just know you are going to love.
This is the best pasta sauce I've ever made and here's why.
This recipe is:
- amazing tasting (see above)
- simple to make
- great for batch cooking - freezer friendly
- vegan.
What are sun-dried tomatoes?
Sun-dried tomatoes are simply ripe tomatoes that have been dried in the sun.
This causes them to lose most of the water content and take on a slightly leathery appearance.
Sun-dried tomatoes are usually sold jarred in olive oil.
Don't waste the oil
The oil that sun-dried tomatoes are stored in has a lovely taste as well.
Add a little of the oil to your pasta sauce, save it to cook another recipe with or use it in a salad dressing.
Eat more walnuts
Adding chopped walnuts to this sauce adds a delicious savoury crunch that really helped me out when I first became vegan. I missed cheese a lot.
Walnuts are a great source of protein as well as the following nutrients:
- copper
- manganese
- healthy fats
- omega 3
- vitamin E
- vitamin B6
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Serving suggestions
This pasta sauce can be eaten on it's own with your favourite pasta or spaghetti.
If you're looking for sides you might like to serve your salad with:
Batch cook/storage
This recipe is great for batch cooking and keeps in the fridge for up to five days or the freezer for at least three months.
Ingredients
To make sun-dried tomato pasta sauce you will need:
- olive oil
- onion
- garlic
- carrot
- tin of chopped tomatoes
- chipotle chilli flakes
- sun-dried tomatoes
- walnuts crumbled
- flat leaf parsley
- salt
How to make sun-dried tomato pasta sauce
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Sun-dried tomato pasta sauce with walnuts and chipotle
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion chopped
- 2 cloves of garlic crushed
- 1 medium carrot peeled and grated
- 400 g tinned chopped tomatoes
- ½ teaspoon chipotle chilli flakes or adjust to taste
- 4 sun-dried tomatoes finely chopped or use 1-2 tablespoons sun-dried tomato paste
- 40 g walnuts crumbled
- 1 tablespoon chopped flat leaf parsley
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Heat the olive oil in a medium saucepan over a medium-high heat.
- Add the onion, stir then reduce the heat to low and cover. Sweat for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, then remove the lid.
- Now add the crushed garlic and continue frying for a further minute.
- Next put the grated carrot, chopped tomatoes, chilli flakes and sundried tomatoes into the pan and stir well.
- Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for ten minutes.
- Put the walnuts into the pan and allow to warm through.
- Finally add the chopped parsley and season with salt to taste.
- Serve with the pasta of your choice.
Notes
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Louise Fairweather
This sounds lovely - I wouldn't have thought of putting walnuts in myself #cookblogshare
Cook Veggielicious
Thanks Louise - they really do work well.
Cat
This looks delicious, I love chipotle in anything!
Cook Veggielicious
It's just so delicious isn't it!
Jo Allison / Jo's KItchen Larder
Lovely idea for pasta sauce Mandy! I use sun dried tomatoes a lot as love their intense flavour but as far as nuts go I have only added pine nuts to pasta before never walnuts. Really intrigued to try them now. x
Cook Veggielicious
I'd love to hear what you think Jo x
Corina Blum
I think sundried tomatoes are brilliant in pasta and I love the crumbled walnut topping. It makes a great alternative when you can't eat cheese.
Cook Veggielicious
Thanks Corina - the walnuts really make it special I think.
Kirsty Hijacked By Twins
Oooh Mandy, I love the addition of the walnuts, this is something I must try! Thank you for sharing with #CookBlogShare x
Cook Veggielicious
Thanks Kirsty - I love adding nuts to pasta, especially if I'm not using cheese x
Eb Gargano | Easy Peasy Foodie
Yes please! This looks awesome. Very much my kind of meal...and I totally agree about adding in sundried tomatoes into this kind of recipe...it works so well, to give an extra depth of flavour....and chipoltle too - YUM!! And do I spy you have gone for WPRM?? How are you finding it? Eb x
Cook Veggielicious
Thanks so much for commenting Eb. I love sundried tomatoes too - such a delicious flavour. WPRM is fine - so far doesn't seem hugely different to what I was using on the old site though tbh. And this is the free version so not with the ratings, but the other ratings plug in seems to be working now. x