Spaghetti With Kidney Beans Sauce Recipe
A simple yet satisfying vegan spaghetti recipe with kidney beans sauce.
Ingredients
- Half A Of 13.5oz Pack Uncooked Spaghetti
- 2 teaspoons Olive oil
- 1 Thinly Sliced Large Onion
- One 15.5oz Can OR 2 Cups Cooked Beans Kidney Beans
- 2 cups Tomato sauce, I used Prego Heart Smart Italian Sauce
- As Per Taste Itaian Seasoning OR Fresh/Dried Herbs of your choice
- To Taste Salt and Pepper
- A pinch Baking soda (Optional)
Instructions
- Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Simultaneously boil water in a large stock pot to cook the spaghetti.
- Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally for about 5 minutes, until softened.
- Stir the tomato sauce into the skillet with the cooked beans and seasoning of your choice. I used 1 teaspoon of dried Italian seasoning.
- While the sauce is cooking, cook the pasta as per package directions. Once the pasta is cooked, drain it, reserving ½ to 1 cup of the water. Add the reserved water to the sauce if required.
- Increase the heat and bring the sauce to a boil, stirring. Add baking soda, if using and lower the heat, partially cover, and simmer for about 10 minutes, or until the sauce has slightly reduced.
- Add salt/pepper to the sauce as per taste, transfer to a serving bowl. Serve the sauce over pasta and enjoy a hearty meal.
Notes
- For the pasta I used Barilla whole grain thin spaghetti. It tastes so good and is healthy too. My tall stockpot is buried somewhere in the closet and I didn't have the patience to take it out. So I broke the spaghetti into half and cooked it in a big saucepan.
- I read in a magazine that adding baking soda to tomato sauce or any other tomato dish would reduce the acidity of the tomatoes. Since we are slightly sensitive to excessive tomatoes I added it.
- The above measurement makes a lot of pasta and sauce. It was definitely more than enough for the 2 of us. So you may want to halve the measurements to make a smaller serving. I found out another way to use the leftovers, will post it shortly. Actually that leftover spaghetti recipe was a bigger hit with my son than the original one.
