Vegan Pasta Recipes

If you’re trying to cut the meat and cheese, try these delicious Vegan Pasta Recipes.

But what is it about Pasta that everyone loves? There are so many different shapes and sizes and they all lend a little different taste to the dish. There are as many different flavors to go along with the differing pastas, and these pasta combinations are absolutely endless. You could literally not only have a different pasta recipe every night but also different vegan pasta recipes every night.

In fact, though these weren't vegan pasta recipes, when my parents were growing up, that's ALL they had was Pasta-Every-Which-Way because they couldn’t afford expensive meat dishes.

My father got to the point that when he was able to afford meat, he almost never wanted to see another pasta dish again, especially in the realm of vegan pasta recipes.

I remember when my grandmother made pasta from scratch. She rolled it out and cut it into long strips and laid it out on dishtowels on the bed to dry.

Many traditional pastas are made with refined flour and egg, so being a vegan I usually shy away from these. I have several vegan pasta recipes and when I make pasta at home, I usually opt for Brown Rice Pasta. Made with the whole grain, it is a bit more healthy. I like it even better than Whole Wheat Pasta. It takes a little longer to cook but not really that much longer.

When I was growing up, Sunday wasn’t Sunday unless we had Pasta with Sugo, which we called it. It was the traditional Pasta with Tomato Sauce and Meatballs. Every once in awhile my mother would try to sneak in a roast and oh how disappointed we were.

We would come home from Sunday morning Mass and the house would be alive with the smell of simmering Sugo (Spaghetti Sauce). Mmmmmm! What a divine aroma. We could hardly wait until it was done.

Actually, we couldn’t. So half way through, we would sample the sugo with bread. We’d get a plate, ladle on sugo, layer a slice of bread, ladle sugo over that, another slice of bread, more sugo, and yet another slice of bread and more sugo. At least three or four slices of bread topped with Sugo. It would get very mushy, but it so was delicious. I can still taste it. That would keep us until the meal was ready.

We almost always had the long spaghetti, meatballs, a green lettuce salad with vinegar and oil and of course, Italian bread. And that was our Sunday dinner at least 48 or 49 Sundays of the 52 weeks in a year when my mother tried to make something else. Even if she roasted chicken, there had to be the usual pasta, too. We were nuts over it.

Of course, if we had company for dinner, there had to be another meat dish besides the meatballs: a roast beef, chicken or even a ham sometimes. There was no such thing as vegan pasta recipes or vegan-anything for that matter. Meat was the food of choice at that point.

For the longest time as an adult, I stayed away from pasta, even though it was one of my favorite foods, in an ever and on-going effort to watch my weight. Now, that I finally have my weight in control (by becoming vegan), and with my grandchildren, we have established Sunday night pasta at our house. They love it, too.

This is one of those old family recipes that has really never been written down. Everyone in my family has always just made it by feel.

I have since taken the meat out of it and we all still think it’s pretty good.

So here is my Pasta with Sugo Recipe and a few other vegan pasta recipes for you to enjoy, as well.

Italian Pasta Sauce

Into a large pot (one with enough boiling space), add:

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