Uncooked Tomato Sauce
Today I’m going to teach you how to make an awesome tomato sauce dish, but we aren’t going to cook the tomato sauce! My take on this is going to be dairy free, no cheese, and it comes out amazing. This whole recipe should only take about fifteen minutes, so let’s get started on this uncooked tomato sauce! if you like this recipe be sure to check out this one too! and this one!
Tofu Cheese
In place of cheese, I will be using tofu. In a container I have a half block of tofu, to that I’m going to add, a tablespoon of olive oil, a half teaspoon of garlic powder, a big pinch of salt, a pinch of nutritional yeast, and a pinch of lactic acid (if you don’t have lactic acid you could just squeeze in some lemon!). Then I blend with my immersion blender until it is a nice creamy consistency. Mine was a bit too thick so I added in some water. Once the consistency is right I add this to a squeeze jar.
Spaghetti and Sauce
Time to throw two portions of spaghetti into salted boiling water, let that cook to the package instructions. Now I’m grabbing my blender and I’m going to add in a quarter of a red tomato, a quarter of a yellow tomato, a handful of grape tomatoes, two cloves of garlic, some olive oil, a pinch of salt, a crack of black pepper, a squeeze of lemon, and a little of our tofu cream. I blended some then gave it a try and it was good but I added some more tofu cream.
Final Steps
Now I prepare a couple grape tomatoes, I also have some micro greens (the grocery store was out of basil). The spaghetti is done so I pulled that out of the water. Then I add about two tablespoons of that starchy spaghetti water to the blender with the sauce and give it a final blend. Next I just add the grape tomatoes into the spaghetti, some of the micro greens, then some of the sauce and toss it around.
Taste Test
Now we plate! Add some spaghetti to your bowl, a drizzle of the tofu cream over top, some more greens and wow this looks incredible! The sauce is light, refreshing, garlic-y and tomato-y. This whole dish is perfect! It’s a little salty but not too much. The chunks of tomato throughout make for a perfect bite. This sauce sticks to the spaghetti perfectly! And the tofu cream sauce goes with the dish so well! Give this uncooked tomato sauce a try! Watch the full video here!
Don’t Cook Tomato Sauce, You’ll Thank You!
Ingredients
- .5 block tofu
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- .5 tsp garlic powder
- 3 tbsp salt
- pinch nutritional yeast
- pinch lactic acid
- 2 portions spaghetti
- 1/4 red tomato
- 1/4 yellow tomato
- handful grape tomatoes
- 2 cloves of garlic
- pinch black pepper
- squeeze of lemon
- micro greens
Instructions
- Blend tofu, olive oil, garlic powder, salt, nutritional yeast, and lactic acid until creamy consistency. If it comes out too thick add water. Add this to a squeeze jar.
- Add spaghetti to salted boiling water, let cook to package instructions.
- In blender add red tomato, yellow tomato, grape tomatoes, cloves of garlic, olive oil, salt, black pepper, lemon and our tofu cream. Blend!
- Take spaghetti out of water. Add starchy water to sauce and blend once more.
- Add grape tomatoes to spaghetti along with micro greens and sauce then toss it around.
- Add spaghetti to a bowl and top with some more tofu cream and greens! Enjoy!