A creamy and delicious 20 minute one-pot veggie sausage pasta with a sun-dried tomato sauce. All ingredients cook together in the same pot.
One Pot Pasta dishes are terribly trendy at the moment... and with good reason. Ever so simple, with no draining required - the pasta and sauce cook themselves in the same pot, with the pasta soaking up all the lovely flavours as it cooks, and its starch helping to thicken the silky sauce.
Most one-pot-pasta recipes involve simply chucking everything into the pot at once and leaving it to its own devices, and you could do that here if you wanted, but I prefer to brown off the veggie sausages first, (or they end up a bit pale and flabby), and also to cook off the onions so they turn really sweet and release their juices before adding everything else.
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📝 What you need
Ingredients
- Cherry tomatoes
- Onion
- Baby spinach
- Vegan sausages
- Dairy-free cream
- Pasta
- Jar of sun-dried tomatoes
- Tomato purée
- Vegetable stock powder
- Olive or rapeseed oil
Equipment
A sturdy, lidded casserole dish is really useful for this dish - the bigger the better as surface area is good for cooking the pasta as evenly as possible.
My trusty Le Creuset casserole gets used almost every day in our house, and twelve years later (it was a wedding present!), it looks just the same as it did the day we got it. (Can't say the same about me or Mr F, sadly!!).
🌭 What are the best vegan sausages to use?
In recent years the quality and quantity of vegan sausage brands to choose from in UK supermarkets has skyrocketed, which is such great news. You can use whichever brand of sausage you like in this speedy pasta supper, but some of my favourites are:
- Richmond Meatfree which I used here and you can see pictured above. They have such a similar look and taste to their 'original' sausages that many people are completely fooled!
- Naked Glory are really excellent sausages - they have a bit more texture and deeper flavour than the Richmond.
- Sainsbury's Shroomdogs I absolutely love these, my personal favourite though my kids find them far too peppery. They have Cumberland sausage seasoning so are fairly strong, but I really like them.
- Vegan 'Chorizo' Sausages Sainsburys, Tesco (Wicked Kitchen) and Morrisons now all stock chorizo-style vegan sausages, and all of them are really excellent. More like traditional sausages with chorizo seasoning than the hard, dense texture of real chorizo, but that makes them perfect for this lovely one-pot pasta.
- Moving Mountains Sausages are really good, but very expensive - I don't buy them often because of the price tag.
- Wheaty Merguez Sausages are probably the best I've ever tasted - they used to be available from Ocado but sadly no longer. They are stocked at TheVeganKind but are also pricy - an occasional treat!
👩🏽🍳 Variations
You can use this recipe in all sorts of ways to create different pasta dishes - why not try mixing it up every time you make it? How about:
- Make it without the veggie sausage by substituting in borlotti beans or chickpeas instead?
- Make it spicy by adding half a teaspoon of chilli flakes or a chopped fresh chilli at the same time as the vegetable stock?
- Make it with spaghetti - you will probably need to snap the spaghetti in half to fit it in the pan!
What other variations will you experiment with?
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This dish was super delicious! I'd never had vegetarian sausage and must say I like it much better. I didn't tell the kids it was a vegetarian meal and they gobbled it all up!" Andy
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📖 Recipe
One-Pot Veggie Sausage Pasta with sun-dried tomatoes
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoon olive or rapeseed oil
- 4 vegan sausages
- 1 onion
- 300 g pasta
- 200 g cherry tomatoes
- 6-8 sun-dried tomatoes
- 2 tablespoon tomato purée
- 1 litre water
- 2 teaspoon vegetable stock powder
- 100 ml dairy-free cream
- 40 g fresh baby spinach
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a large, shallow casserole dish and fry the sausages and onions together until the sausages have browned all over.
- Carefully remove them from the pan, slice them diagonally into 4 pieces each, then return to the pan for a further 2 minutes.
- Halve the cherry tomatoes and roughly chop the sun-dried tomato pieces.
- Add them to the pot along with the pasta, tomato purée, water and stock powder. Season well with salt and black pepper. Bring to the boil, then reduce to a simmer, cover and cook for 12-14 minutes, stirring every few minutes, until the pasta is cooked through.
- Roughly chop the spinach and add to the pan along with the vegan cream. Stir well and cook for a further minute until the spinach has wilted. Taste and adjust seasoning if required.
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Philippa says
A delicious and speedy weekday meal. The cherry tomatoes make it really fresh tasting. We added crushed chillies. I would start browning the sausages before adding the onions because mine got a bit burned! Also I added more spinach. Lovely recipe. Thanks
Natalie says
I never usually leave comments for recipes but this one I could not help but to!! It was so delicious and easy! I added some garlic (I’m a garlic addict) and the Tesco vegan chorizo sausage and awwww it was so tasty! Even some of my house mates had some (none vegans).
I’ve got two portions left over, just wondering if I can freeze this? I’ve never frozen pasta before and don’t want to waste!xxx
Kate Ford says
That's great to hear, thanks Natalie! Yes you can freeze it, just make sure it is piping hot when you reheat it.
Val says
Absolutely delicious. I used the spicy vegan sausages from Sainsburys. Had to transfer from my medium size pot to the big pressure cooker pot (no lid) to give more room for the pasta and water. I can't wait to have another bowl tomorrow.
Kate Ford says
That's lovely to hear, thanks Val!
Lins says
Looks delicious and so simple but just wondering how does this freeze?
Biana says
Looks delicious! Pasta with sausage, spinach and tomatoes is the perfect combination.
Jill says
Delish! So easy and my whole family loved it!
Saima says
The pictures are very appealing too and make me want to have the pasta right now!
Saima says
Love one pot dishes! Never tried vegan sausages but I would love to and this recipe is the perfect inspiration to do so. And I 'm a fan of sound-dried tomatoes so this recipe is right up my alley!
Andrea says
Easy and delicious comfort food at it's finest right here.
Andy Kriebel says
This dish was super delicious! I'd never had vegetarian sausage and must say I like it much better. I didn't tell the kids it was a vegetarian meal and they gobbled it all up!
thevegspace says
Oh thats great to hear, thanks Andy!
Katherine says
Looks lovely, daughter has requested for tonight's tea! Any idea what the calorie count is for this?
Bali Tour says
The pasta looks yuuumy
Thanks for great recipe 🙂
Lucy says
This looks great - somehow the one pot pasta craze has passed me by. I think I would have been worried that the starchiness from the pasta wouldn't be good when you cook it like this but if everyone's doing it must be fine 🙂 I'll do this tonight or tomorrow because I've got cherry tomatoes to use up that I forgot to put in yesterday's salad! Thanks for the inspiration.
Claire @foodiequine says
I've still not tried the whole 'one pot pasta thing' despite seeing it all over the internet. I really must bite the bullet and give it a go,
Camilla @FabFood4All says
Love this pasta dish and makes me realise I haven't had sun dried tomatoes in too long! Cast iron pan looks fab too:-)
Laura@howtocookgoodfood says
I love recipes like this and actually taught one to a cookery class recently, they loved the ease of it. I think I will use your recipe next time I teach the class!