Vegan One Pot Pasta

This Asian style vegan one pot pasta is the perfect meal for busy weeknights! It's super creamy, delicious, healthy, and insanely easy to make!

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 box Chickapea alimentary paste (8 ounces protein free pasta)*
• 1/2 tablespoon oil
• 1/2 Spanish onion sliced thinly
• 4 cloves garlic minced
• 1 bell pepper I used half orange, half yellow
• 2 cups inexperienced beans ends cut
• 1/3 cup sundried tomatoes cut roughly
• herbs (fresh thyme, basil, Petroselinum crispum or inexperienced onions) to garnish
• sea salt and black pepper to style

Creamy Tomato sauce:

• 1/3 cup cashews soaked a pair of hours and rinsed
• 1 one5-ounce will diced tomatoes
• 3/4 teaspoon ocean salt or a lot of, to taste
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1 teaspoon contemporary thyme (or one/4 teaspoon dried thyme)
• black pepper to style
• 2 cups water don’t boost the sauce

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Soak cashews in cold water for a minimum of a pair of hours or up to nightlong. If you do not have time for this step, soak cashews in boiling water for twenty minutes.
2. Add soaked and drained cashews and diced tomatoes to a liquidizer with all the seasonings for the sauce. mix till terribly swish, regarding 1-2 minutes in a very high speed liquidizer, or a touch longer in a very customary liquidizer. Set aside.
3. In a cooking pan, add oil, and onions and garlic. Saute on medium high heat till the onions and garlic have begun to brown.
4. Add the sliced peppers and inexperienced beans, and saute till done to your feeling. take away all veggies from the pan and put aside.
5. In the same pot (really, there isn’t any got to even wash it!), bring a pair of cups of water to a boil, so add Chickapea alimentary paste and therefore the creamy pasta sauce. permit to simmer on a coffee boil for 5-7 minutes, till the alimentary paste remains hard, however the sauce has begun to thicken. The sauce can look like a great deal, however also will cowl the veggies.
6. Add the veggies and sun dried tomatoes in, and toss to coat. Garnish with contemporary thyme, parsley, or basil.
7. This alimentary paste is simply as delicious consecutive day. The leftovers keep all right.

NOTES:

• *A box of Chickapea alimentary paste is eight ounces.

To make this with another protein free alimentary paste (I tested with a rice & quinoa pasta):

• Use 1/2 cup water further, or skinny the sauce out because the alimentary paste cooks to preference.
• Boil the alimentary paste with water and creamy pasta sauce for nearer to 12-15 minutes. Chickpea alimentary paste cooks a great deal faster than grain based mostly pastas.