This is the creamiest and most delicious vegan Mac and Cheese ever! It has a wonderful unique cheesy and smoky flavour and a crunchy herbs and bread crumbs topping. You will want to make that recipe again and again because its so damn good! Promised

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Smoky Vegan Mac and Cheese – Why vegan when I’m not a vegan.

I love cheese! Who doesn’t, right? The only problem there is, it’s not vegan. Im not a vegan, but I try to eat vegan 3-4 days a week . Why? Because I want to do my part to help improving the environment and stop the climate change. And I think to forgo meat and animal products 3-5 days a week is a good thing to start with. I want to be a person to look up to for my kids.

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The most important ingredients to get that cheesy and smoky flavour

There are 2 key ingredients you need, to take that casserole from an ordinary creamy pasta dish to the very best vegan Mac’n Cheese.

Nutritional Yeast (Yeast flakes)

• This yeast is grown specifically to be used as a food product. The yeast cells are killed during manufacturing and not alive in the final product. I is used in cooking and has a cheesy, nutty and savory flavor.
• It’s naturally low in sodium and calories
• It’s sugar-free, fat-free, gluten-free and vegan
• Nutritional yeast is a great source of protein, B vitamins and trace minerals

Smoked Salt

Smoked salt is that special extra that enhances my mac’n cheese with that special aromatic bacon like taste. It is an aromatic salt, smoked with any number of select bark free woods for up to 14 days

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It’s one of my favourite vegan recipes and I hope you will enjoy the rich creaminess and cheesy smoky aroma! It’s a true comfort food that should be shared with people you love!

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Nina

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Smoky vegan Mac and Cheese with sun dried tomatoes and spinach

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Recipe by Nina Course: dinner recipe, Main CourseCuisine: American, vegan cuisine

Servings

4

Prep time

30

minutes

Cooking time

15

minutes

Calories

881

kcal

This is a delicious take on a classic: smoky vegan mac and cheese with sun dried tomatoes and spinach and a classic crumbs topping. It is the creamiest and cheesiest mac and cheese I ever tasted. It has a subtle smoky aroma and the sun dried tomatoes and spinach makes it special. Its an easy dinner.

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Ingredients

• 400 g 400 pasta

• 80 g 80 plant based butter

• 40 g 40 flour

• 200 ml 200 coconut milk

• 350 ml 350 almond milk

• 1/2 1/2 lemon juice

• 2 tsp 2 smoky salt

• 2 tsp 2 dried garlic

• 2 tsp 2 dried onions

• 1 1/2 cups 1 1/2 nutritional yeast

• 1 tsp 1 cayenne pepper

• 200 g 200 spinach thawed

• 12 12 sun dried tomatoes cut into pieces

• 2 tbsp 2 pine nuts dry roasted for the casserole

• Herbs and breadcrumbs Crumble

• 4 tbsp 4 bread crumbs vegan and white

• 2 tbsp 2 pine nuts dry roasted for the topping

• 2 tbsp 2 olive oil

• 5 5 fresh sage leaves

Directions

• Melt the butter in a deep medium sized pan.Sprinkle the flour into the melted butter under constant mixing with a whisker.When butter and flour are combined pour slowly the coconut milk and almond milk under constant whisking into the pan.Bring it to a boil and let it thicken.

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• Add the smoky salt, the nutritional yeasty flakes and all the seasonings and mix everything togehter. Add more salt if necesarry.

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• Add the spinach, sun dried tomatoes and the pine nuts and let it cook for another 2 minutes.

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• Cook the pasta only half as long as said on the instruction, strain the pasta and add it immediately to the sauce. mix everything together and pour it into a casserole form.
• sprinkle the crumble on top

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• Herbs and bread crumbs crumble
• Put all the ingredients into a blender and puls it 3-4 times.
• Broil the casserole for 8 minutes at 220 degrees Celsius or 428 degrees Fahrenheit or until the crumble is golden brown.

Nutrition Facts

• Calories: 881kcal
• Carbohydrates: 110g
• Protein: 28g
• Fat: 38g
• Saturated Fat: 8g
• Sodium: 1585mg
• Potassium: 1214mg
• Fiber: 11g
• Sugar: 8g
• Vitamin A: 4949IU
• Vitamin C: 26mg
• Calcium: 210mg
• Iron: 6mg

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This is an easy and fast recipe for a hearty, delicious and easy Italian Bolognese Sauce. It’s one of my favourite pasta sauce recipes and made in under 60 minutes.

What is better than a plate full of comfort food? Actually not much. Comfort food makes you happy when you are sad and it makes you instantly feel at home. At least that’s how I feel after eating a big plate full of pasta drowning in a flavourful sauce with lots of parmesan cheese

Why you should try my pasta sauce.

I can tell you about 20 good reasons why you should try new recipes but here are 6 top reasons why it should be my recipe

• The recipe is very easy to cook
• It’s ideal for meal prep
• The sauce is a perfect base for other dishes like chili con carne or lasagne
• Dinner is ready in under an hour
• Low prep time. You only need 10 minutes for prepping all the ingredients. The rest is just simmering and the occasional stir.
• There are some ingredients which takes this recipe from basic to grant

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Delicious Easy Italian Bolognese Sauce and the magic ingredients

There are 5 ingredients which give this pasta sauce a unique sweet flavour and more richness and will make sure that you make this sauce again and again and again.

• Butter. I love the flavour of butter. There is not much butter in that sauce but enough for giving a unique flavouring.
• Brown sugar. The brown sugar combined with the butter and olive oil makes a great combination for a caramel like flavour.
• Balsamic vinegar. Added Balsamic not only enhances the taste and sweetness of strawberries and peaches it also brings out the flavour of tomatoes
• Red wine. Alcohol is always a good option to drown your sorrow but no in my recipe it just adds some richness to our sauce. The alcohol will vaporise during the cooking process so there will only stay the delicious aroma. If you don’t want to use red wine just leave it out.
• Pasta water. Pasta water is the one thing I always add to all of my pasta sauces. Thanks to Jamie Oliver . The water contains starch from the pasta you cooked previously in it and that lets the sauce further thicken and gives it a viscid texture.

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How to cook my Pasta Sauce .

• First we will start with melting butter and olive oil in a large deep pan. The added butter gives the sauce more flavour.
• When the oil and butter is melted add the diced onion and minced garlic, brown sugar, salt and balsamic vinegar and cook everything on medium heat until the onions are caramelised and soft.
• pour the red wine (or some more balsamic vinegar) into the pan, deglazing the onions
• add the minced beef, break the meat into small pieces and cook everything for another 10 minutes tiring every so often.
• Pour the tomato sauce into the pan and pour some pasta water into the glasses to get the rest of the tomato sauce swamped out and add that to your sauce too. Give the sauce a good stir and let it cook for about half an hour or until the sauce is thickened.
• Season everything with some salt, fresh black pepper and more brown sugar if needed.

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How to serve.

The best way to serve my easy Italian bolognese sauce is over some pasta al dente of course and with lots of Italian parmesan cheese. It doesn’t matter if its spaghetti, penne or any other kind of pasta. I like noodles made of carrots or zucchini too its a good alternative to all the pasta carbs.

Wonderful and aromatic! That’s what all my family members say about my Italian recipe and it definitely brings some dolce vita into our kitchen ;-).

If you try my flavourful bolognese pasta sauce please make sure to leave some kind words and don’t forget to rate it. I would be very happy to hear from you .

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Nina <3

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Easy Italian Bolognese Recipe – delicious and aromatic

This is a delightful short cut recipe for a delightful Italian Bolognese Sauce. Its easy to make and ready to eat in under 1 hour.

• 2 yellow onions (about 400g, diced)
• 1 garlic clove (minced, you can add more but I prefer one)
• 1 tbsp butter
• 2 tbsp olive oil (extra virgin)
• 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 carrot (diced in small cubes)
• 500 g minced beef (or half minced beef and half minced pork)
• 50 ml red wine (or 1 more tbsp balsamic vinegar)
• 1/2 cup pasta water
• 2 jars tomato sauce (about 500ml each jar/can . I prefer tomato sauce which is already cooked with herbs or some vegetables)

1. First heat the butter and the olive oil in a big deep pan on medium heat.

   Add the diced onions, minced carlic, brown sugar, balsamic vinegar and salt and let everything cook with no coloring until the inions are soft and caramelised

   Pour the red vine into the pan and let the alcohol vaporize before you add the next ingredients

   Add the small carrot cubes and the minced meat and break everything up in small pieces, cook for about 10 minutes with the occasional stirring

   Now you add the tomato sauce to the meat. Flush the rest of the tomato sauce with 1/2 cup of pasta water out of the jars/cans and pour the mixture into the pan too.

   Give the sauce a good stir and let everything simmer about 45mintues or until the sauce has thickend.

   When the sauce has the right consistency season with some salt and fresh black pepper.

   Serve with any kind of pasta or zoodles and shredded parmesan cheese.

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