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The pasta sauce is served in a bowl on top of gluten free spaghetti with fresh basil leaves

Gluten Free Pasta Sauce Recipe

Delicious gluten free pasta sauce that is tasty, easy to make, economical, and very versatile!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine Italian
Servings 4 people

Equipment

  • large frying pan

Ingredients
  

  • 28 ounces tomatoes - canned, crushed (800 grams)
  • 1 pound ground beef (500 grams) Optional, see discussion to make this vegetarian.
  • 1 large brown onion
  • 3 cloves garlic Add more if you love garlic like I do!
  • 1 carrot, grated
  • 1 red pepper, diced (capsicum)
  • 1 zucchini
  • olive oil
  • 1 pinch salt and pepper, to taste
  • 1 cup red wine Substitute water if you don't have red wine.
  • ½ cup parmesan cheese
  • 1 teaspoon sugar

Instructions
 

  • Add onion and olive oil to the hot frying pan. Sautee onion for 3 minutes. Stir regularly so onion doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pan.
  • Add the ground beef to the pan and stir the onion and ground beef together in the pan for a few minutes until the beef was all broken up and was no longer pink.
  • Then add in the garlic and dried herbs and stir everything together constantly for about 1 minute.
  • Before the garlic starts to brown, add in the tomatoes, red wine (or water), salt, pepper, and sugar. Stir while bringing all ingredients to the boil, then immediately turn the heat down to low.
  • Allow the sauce to simmer slowly for about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. During this time, the sauce will begin the thicken a little as some of the moisture evaporates.
  • After about 20 minutes, boil a large pot of lightly salted water on the stove if you’re going to serve the sauce over gluten free pasta. When the water has boiled, add the pasta and cook.
  • At the same time as I put the salted water on to boil in preparation for the gluten free pasta, I added the grated carrot, grated zucchini, and finely diced red pepper (capsicum) to the sauce.
  • The last 10 minutes of simmer time is all that the carrot, zucchini, and red pepper need to ‘catch up’ to the rest of the ingredients.
  • Add fresh basil to the sauce just before serving.
  • Serve the pasta sauce on the pasta and sprinkle with parmesan cheese.

Notes

Other vegetables you can add into the sauce if you wish: 
  • Corn kernels
  • Sliced green beans
  • Small broccoli and/ or cauliflower florets
  • Finely diced button squash
  • Snow peas (mange tout)
  • Large red chillies (if you like it spicy!)
  • Finely sliced celery
 
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