Description
A thick full bodied vegan, gluten free pasta dish.
Ingredients
Scale
- ¼ cup dried porcini mushrooms
- 6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 small onion, diced
- 2 medium carrots, diced
- 2 cups eggplant peeled and cut into ¼ “ dice
- 1 lb cremini mushrooms ¼ sliced the rest cut into ¼” dice
- 6 oz shitake mushroom, stems removed, ½ sliced the rest the cut into ¼” dice
- 5 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 tablespoon white miso
- One 28 ounce can whole peeled organic tomatoes, crushed with their juice
- 1 thyme sprig
- ½ teaspoon coconut sugar
- Celtic sea salt
- Fresh pepper
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
- 8 ounces gluten free spaghetti (Andean Dream Quinoa Pasta)
Instructions
- In a small bowl cover the porcini with 1 cup boiling water; soak until softened about 30 minutes. Finely chop the porcini. Let the sand settle on the bottom, carefully pour off and reserve ½ cup of the soaking liquid.
- In a large cast iron pot, heat 2 Tb of the olive oil. Add onion and carrots and cook over medium-low heat until lightly browned, about 8 minutes.
- Add eggplant and 2 Tb olive oil. Raise the heat to medium and cook stirring occasionally until softened, about 8 minutes.
- Stir in the cremini, shitake, chopped porcini and remaining 2 Tb olive oil. Season with salt and pepper
- Cook stirring occasionally until the mushrooms begin to brown 8-10 minutes.
- Stir in the tomato paste, miso and garlic. Stir to dissolve the miso and tomato paste. Cook for 1 minute.
- Add the tomatoes and their juices, thyme, sugar and reserved mushroom liquid and bring to a simmer
- Cover and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the sauce is very thick about 1 hour.
- Discard the thyme sprig and season with salt and pepper.
- In a pot of salted boiling water, cook the spaghetti until al dente. Drain reserving ½ cup of the pasta water.
- Add pasta, pasta water and parsley to the sauce, toss to coat. Serve in bowls topped with cheese.
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Category: Main Dish
- Cuisine: Italian, Gluten Free, Vegan