Main Dishes

Fresh Harvest Vegetable Marinara Sauce

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Having a vegetable garden is fun and rewarding. The challenge is to use up the produce as it fills up the kitchen. So I decided to be creative and see how many of the vegetables from our garden I could use up in one recipe. I combined our garden veggies with a few things added from our local farmer's market and cooked up a batch of vegetarian pasta sauce. We had it for dinner tonight over quinoa spaghetti noodles and it was delicious. I cooked up some conventional spaghetti as well, so my h

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2 Tbs olive oil
2 onions
5 cloves garlic
6 carrots
2 zucchini
5 stalks celery
2 bay leaves
1/4 cup fresh basil
1 cup fresh parsley
3 branches kale
1/4 cup green pepper
10 shitake mushrooms
10 cups chopped fresh tomatoes
2 tsp sea salt
1 Tbs sugar
2 (28 oz) cans organic crushed tomatoes
I washed all the vegetables and starting with the onions, I cut them each into chunks and used my Cuisinart to finely chop each vegetable one type at a time. I put a large pot on medium heat and added 2-3...
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Nutritions

Calories
249

Sodium
1182mg
49% DV

Fat
9g
13% DV

Protein
10g
21% DV

Carbs
40g
13% DV

Fiber
8g
33% DV