Super Simple Hidden Veg Sauce

This Super Simple Hidden Veg Sauce is one which I’ve recently started making to use as a base for many recipes. I’ll be referring to this sauce in many recipes to come.

My partner started complaining that he felt like he needed to eat more vegetables as he wasn’t feeling very healthy (having glandular fever didn’t help though). The next night his step-mum made a simple stew, just a bucket load of vegetables and a tin of tomatoes and cooked it overnight in her slow cooker. To be honest it was absolutely horrible because everything tasted like tomato and was mushy and watery. It did give me the inspiration for this sauce though.

Perfect for kids who don’t like eating vegetables or just adding a little more ‘healthy’ to each meal. This recipe can be adapted to suit your family. Swap and change ingredients as you please.

Ingredients:

1 tin of crushed tomatoes
2 cloves of garlic
1/2 an onion
400g of fresh vegetables of your choice. I use cauliflower, broccoli, carrot, zucchini, capsicum, beans and peas.
1 cup of water or stock of your choice.

Method:

Roughly chop all vegetables. Harder vegetables like carrots need to be cut a tiny bit smaller.
Place all ingredients in a pot and bring to the boil.
Simmer for approximately 10 mins or until all vegetables are tender.
Remove from heat.
Use a bar mix or blender to blitz the mixture until smooth. You can add more liquid if you prefer a runnier sauce.

This sauce will keep in the fridge for approximately 5 days in an airtight container and for 3 months in the freezer.