This healthy homemade pasta sauce with hidden veg makes an absolutely brilliant base for a number of easy and quick mid-week dishes when you want your children to have a decent meal for dinner but don’t have the energy or inclination to cook.
It freezes well in individual portions and defrosts really quickly so that it can be heated up at the same time as some pasta and then sprinkled with cheese, or used as a base for Spaghetti Bolognese, or even thickened up a bit and used as a healthy tomato base for homemade pizzas.
There’s a decent amount of prep involved with all of the veg that needs chopping, but it’s all very straightforward, and this recipe makes a good number of portions so that you can always have some ready to grab out of the freezer and make a quick, healthy and tasty meal! The portions defrost really easily if you portion them out into individual freezer bags and lie them all flat on top of each other, and that way they don’t take up too much freezer space either.
Obviously, adults can eat it too — we usually add some dried chillies to ours and maybe stir through a spoonful of Harissa. The types and amounts of veg can be varied depending on what you’ve got in and what needs using up, which makes it even better.
We always have portions of this in our freezer and my daughter loves it — and I love that she’s getting loads of veg in her dinner, particularly as it’s a quick and easy dinner to make for her!
Let me know if you try it!