October 23, 2012
Pasta nights are huge around the Rainey house, although we try not to be “carbtarians” (too much emphasis on pasta/carbs in a vegetarian diet). The faux beef crumbles give the sauce a very meaty flavor and texture even though its 100% vegetarian. As a side note, we LOVE the faux beef crumbles. We toss them into everything…chilis, soups, taco salad…they blend into everything. We’ve even fooled a few meat-loving diehards when we’ve used them in tacos.
Today was an easy one-pan, one-serving bowl meal for lunch that left of lots of options for dinner. For just two people, this ended up making a lot of extra sauce. If you cook the whole box of pasta for dinner, you’ll have enough for 4 people at one meal or 2 meals for 2 people.
- One 45 oz jar Chunky Ragu Tomato, Garlic, and Onion (very sweet sauce)
- One 12 oz package MorningStar Farms Grillers Recipe Crumbles (faux beef crumbles–vegetarian, not vegan due to egg whites)
- Frozen or fresh peas to taste. I used about 3 cups.
- Half of a 12 oz box of Ronzoni SmartTaste Rotini pasta (2.5x the fiber of regular pasta)
- Ground peppercorn and garlic sea salt to taste
Cook pasta and peas in boiling water, drain and put in a serving bowl. Add peppercorn and sea salt. In same pan, grill crumbles until cooked thoroughly. I fried mine until they were just starting to turn black. Add the pasta sauce and heat thoroughly. Once heated, serve immediately.
Nutrition, by the serving size of each ingredient: (our bowl ingredients vary bowl to bowl). If you do a minimum of one serving of each per bowl, you’re getting 23 grams of protein per bowl…and I can never eat just one bowl.
Chunky Ragu Tomato, Garlic, and Onion
- Serving size: 1/2 cup
- Total Fat: 2.5 g 4%DV
- Cholesterol: 0 0%
- Sodium 460 mg 19%
- Potassium 450 mg 13%
- Total Carbs 14 g 5%
- Dietary Fiber 2 g 8%
- Sugars 10 g
- Protein 2 g
- Vitamin A 15%
- Vitamin C 10%
- Calcium 2%
- Iron 4%
MorningStar Farms Grillers Recipe Crumbles
- Serving size: 2/3 cup
- Total Fat: 2.5 g 4%
- Polyunsaturated fat 1.5 g
- Monounsaturated fat .5 g
- Cholesterol 0 0%
- Sodium 230 mg 10%
- Potassium 100 mg 3%
- Total Carbs: 5g 2%
- Dietary Fiber 3 g
- Sugar less than 1 g
- Protein 10 g
- Iron 10%
- Thiamin 20%
- Niacin 20%
- Vitamin B12 50%
- Ribflavin 6%
- Vitamin B5 15%
Frozen Peas:
- Serving size: 2/3 cup
- Total fat 0 g 0%
- Cholesterol 0%
- Sodium 0%
- Potassium 130 mg 4%
- Total carbs 12 g 4%
- Dietary Fiber 4 g 16%
- Sugar 4 g
- Protein 5 g
- Vitamin A 8%
- Vitamin C 10%
- Iron 6%
Ronzoni SmartTaste Rotini pasta
- Serving size: 2 oz, approx 3/4 cup
- Total fat .5 g 1%
- Sodium 15 mg 1%
- Total carbs 39g 13%
- Dietary Fiber 5 g 20%
- Sugar 1 g
- Protein 6 g
- Calcium 20%
- Iron 8%
- Vitamin D 20%
- Thiamin 35%
- Riboflavin 10%
- Niacin 15%
- Folate 30%
Posted by Rainey in Food Tags: Dinner, Leftovers, Lunch, One pan meals, Vegetarian
