This Vegetarian Spaghetti Bolognaise Recipe (Bolognese or even a cheeky little Spag Bol if you prefer) has become a much-loved family favourite.
Tasty Bolognnaise Sauce For Everyone
Spaghetti Bolognaise is such a versatile dish. It’s a heart-warming comfort food for chilly days. A ‘fun food’ for toddlers to slurp. A last-minute playdate meal. The perfect informal supper for making and sharing with friends over a warmed glass of red. And a safe meal to pull together for first dates.
The pasta used is important (spaghetti or linguini is good for me) but the experience is all about the sauce. My tweak (apart from a vegetarian substitute) is to add crushed coriander seed. Its light, sweet floral taste really compliments the tomato base beautifully.
Vegetarian Bolognaise Sauce Ingredients
- Olive oil
- 1 onion (finely diced)
- 3 cloves garlic (crushed)
- 1-2 tbsp coriander seed (warmed and then gently crushed)
- 1 courgette (finely diced)
- 1 pepper (finely diced)
- 1 carrot (grated)
- 350g Minced Quorn
- approx 350g Passata
- approx 350g water (I fill up the passata container to get any left over tomato)
- 1 tbsp dried Italian Seasoning (oregano or mixed herbs is ok as well)
- cornflower to thicken
How To Make Vegetarian Spaghetti Bolognaise Sauce Recipe With Coriander Seed
Gently heat the coriander seed in an un-oiled pan and then roughly crush them to release the flavour.
Next add a little oil to the pan with the onions, crushed coriander seed and crushed garlic. Saute until the onion starts to turn translucent.
Add the courgette, pepper and carrot, cooking until the courgette just starts to change colour.
Mix in the minced Quorn and passata followed by half the water. Add the rest of the water if you need to.
If you find the sauce gets too watery, mix in a little cornflower to thicken it. I mix the cornflower with some of the sauce juice in a cup until smooth and then pour back into the pan.
A few minutes before serving add your dried herbs.
Dishing Up
Serve with spaghetti or my favourite, linguine. And top with a dusting of Parmigiano Reggiano.
Sounds delicious! We can’t get quorn here, and that really annoys me. Bet it would be equally delicious with just the veg though! (:
I’ve never cooked with quern before, but this sure does look tempting!
I keep a packet of Quorn miince in the freezer as it’s so handy to have in. I’ve never tried using crushed corriander seed.
this sounds really tasty. I have never tried Quorn mince before must give it a try
Oh yes so love this as a veggie myself sure give this ago.
We use quorn mince a lot as Mini prefers the texture and as a bonus is can be frozen, so we LOVE it
Oh yum this sounds absolutely delicious, I wonder if I would manage to cook it lol. x
That does sound delicious. I wonder if my hubby would eat quorn mince (he isn’t keen on the meat variety).
You should definitely give it a go. When my girls friends come round they eat it and don’t even realise it’s not meat 🙂
Lovely recipe. I have used Quorn before and enjoyed it but my hubby and kids prefer the meat variety!
You know I don’t think I’ve had quorn since I stopped being a vegetarian but it’s really low fat too so I might give it a try again 🙂
It’s great food to keep in the freezer for those ‘last minute’ meals
I couldn’t imagine not having it in my freezer
We are not veggies but I do like to cut out meat every now and again and this sounds delicious
I love spag bol and I reckon the kids are probably sick of it because I want to have it so often! It really is a comfort food for me and when I was pregnant with my second, it was my biggest craving. We had to have it at least 3 times a week. I’d have had it every night if the rest of the family hadn’t complained about it!
What a lovely craving to have. You can’t beat a Spag Bol for lifting your spirits
This sounds good. My daughter and I are vegetarian so this would be a good recipe for us to try.
Spag bol is my go to meal when I’m tried or dont feel like cooking. It’s great. I’m veggie so my try out our recipe .
We love spag bol. Even though i’m not a vegetarian I still like quorn
My Girls eat meat and veggie food so they get the best of both worlds 🙂
There are lots of quern products my family prefer over the meat ones. They love the quern version of scotch eggs
This would go down well with my eldest who loves quorn.
ive never even bothered or thought to make veg bolognaise yet its something i would really enjoy