Vegetable pasta sauce – Thermomix

Ingredients:

• 1 medium brown onion, peeled and quartered
• 3 garlic cloves
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 carrot, roughly chopped
• 120g pumpkin flesh, roughly chopped
• 1.5 zucchini, roughly chopped
• 80g button mushrooms, halved
• 1 red capsicum, roughly chopped
• 4 tomatoes, quartered
• 1 tablespoon salt reduced vegetable stock powder
• 1 tablespoon salt reduced tomato paste
• 400g canned chopped tomatoes
• 3 sprigs mixed fresh herbs, leaves only

Method:

1. Place onion and garlic in mixing bowl and chop 3 sec/speed 7
2. Scrape down the sides of mixing bowl and add oil, sauté 2 min/100C/speed 2
3. Add carrot, pumpkin, zucchini, mushrooms chop 5-10 sec/speed7, Scrape down the sides
4. Add capsicum and tomatoes and chop 5sec/speed7, repeat if necessary
5. Add tomato paste, canned tomatoes and stock.
6. Cook 25min/100C/speed2 with MC removed and simmering basket on lid
7. Add fresh herbs, replace MC, and blend 1min/speed 7, gradually increasing the speed from speed 1 to speed 7
8. Serve with pasta of your choice.