Vegetable Pasta!

I made the choice to go vegan a while back and have been experimenting with recipes ever since. Just made this for the first time the other night and it came out tasting really really good.

I am usually pretty busy during the week, so I tend to make a bunch of food on Sunday or Monday and eat it until it's gone, so my measurements and quantities might be a little on the large side.

Start with two heads of broccoli, washed, and cut for pasta. I like to leave a bit of stem but you can do what you want. I do this first just cause it's the most time consuming and annoying.




Next, for the sauce, cut up 5-6 cloves of fresh garlic and a good amount of basil.





Put them in a bowl with a generous amount of EVOO and add the juice of 1-2 lemons.






Boil some water and add your pasta



Add the broccoli to your boiling pasta water. itll only take a minute or two to cook, so i usually put it in at 8 minutes if the pasta takes 10.




In a separate saute pan saute up whatever vegetables you want to use, I like Mushrooms, spinach, and cannellini beans. Make sure you put the spinach in last and only for a few seconds, it will reduce into nothing very quickly:





When everything is heated up in your saute pan, and after your strained your broccoli and pasta, mix it all together in the big pot:



Serve and enjoy.



This particular dish tasted a lot better the next day rather than immediately after I made it.

Looks good and simple might give it a go this week,

could use a meatball or two

Would seem kind of plain any sauce? Me and my girlfriend turned vegan and we don't have a lot of time either. Do you got any more recipes?

Originally Posted by Sam 330ci

Will add meat when i make this.

looks really good sam.... i made pasta tonight as well, but it had fishies in it........ mmmmmmmmmmmm

Originally Posted by JordanBMW

Would seem kind of plain any sauce? Me and my girlfriend turned vegan and we don't have a lot of time either. Do you got any more recipes?

I'm just making it up as I go and eating a lot of raw foods - vegetables, fruits and beans mostly.

Check out these two books for some great recipes:

The Ultimate Book of Vegan Cooking
http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Book-...3144300&sr=8-1


Forks Over Knives Cookbook
http://www.amazon.com/Forks-Over-Kni...3144315&sr=1-1

Reviving the dead vegan thread!!
Sprinkle nutritional yeast on top instead of Parmesan.
I'm a veggie too. My go to is barilla plus (had protein) with sauteed veggies.

Originally Posted by Chrissy

Reviving the dead vegan thread!!
Sprinkle nutritional yeast on top instead of Parmesan.
I'm a veggie too. My go to is barilla plus (had protein) with sauteed veggies.

I read an article a while back, can't remember the source unfortunately, that said Barilla Plus added very little nutritonal benefit, and you are better off eating Ronzoni Healthy Harvest:




I switched to this brand and love it, would highly recommend you try it.

vegan, lmao. i'm sorry for you.

Originally Posted by Sam 330ci

I read an article a while back, can't remember the source unfortunately, that said Barilla Plus added very little nutritonal benefit, and you are better off eating Ronzoni Healthy Harvest:




I switched to this brand and love it, would highly recommend you try it.

Really? I eat barilla plus because of the insane amounts of protein in it. I'll do some research. If I'm going to eat pasta I want it to be the most bang for my calories.