Favorite Vegan Pasta Bolognese

Its time for some more vegan recipes...

...somehow I have been lazy with posting recipes these past weeks but now I prepared a few posts with my favorite whole food, plant baesd alternatives to some of my favorite dishes. These include bolognese, carbonara, and lasagna. I will start with my favorite vegan bolognese sauce. There are soooo many recipes out there for vegan bolognese and I tried many of them. This one became my favorite.

You will need:

Around 800 gr diced canned tomatoes or tomatoe puree
Around 200 gr tofu
1 eggplant
Two carrots
As much celeriac as carrots
1-2 onions
Fresh garlic
Some red wine OR red wine vinegar
1 bay leaf
Oregano
Italian herbs to your taste
Pepper
Salt
Sugar

Optional: Olives, fresh rosmary, fresh basil, some fresh tomatoes... 

You can of course vary this recipe to your taste. Sometimes I leave out the tofu, sometimes I add some zuccini or savoy cabbage - it always depends on what you have in your fridge and what you like :) 
I just think the celeriac is important for the taste, and so are onion, carrot and garlic. Besides, add ALL the veggies you like :)

To begin, chop everything into small dices and crumble the tofu. 
Then fry the egg plant and the tofu in a pan together with a bay leaf. Fry until the tofu is getting golden/brown and the eggplant is getting soft. 

Then add the other veggies - carrots, celeriac, onion and garlic and fry them with the tofu and the eggplant.  
Next, add some red wine or red wine vinegar and allow the tofu to absorb the liquid. Then add the diced tomatoes or tomatoe puree. Finally, add all the herbs and the sugar and season to taste with salt and pepper. Take out the bay leaf in the end.

You can also add olives, or fresh basil or rosemary if you like. And you can sprinkle yeast flakes on top of everything if you like. I usually sprinkle some yeast flakes over my bolognese in the end, since I like this parmesan-like taste :) 

Add the sauce to the pasta of your choice and ENJOY as much as you like - this recipe is without added fats, vegan and healthy. You will get lots of energy from it and it really tastes so so good! 
If you want to make it even more healthy, eat the sauce with whole grain pasta of your choice (wheat or spelt or what you like...) since they have much more nutrients than white pastas do. 

Let me know how you liked this bolognese after trying! Or maybe you have already found YOUR favorite vegan bolognese? I would love to read your favorite recipe!