This recipe for Vegan Cheese & Tomato Carbonara is truly the best! It is velvety and smoky with fresh pops of tomatoes and fresh spinach. This is a plant-based twist on a classic Italian dish. Comfort food with a nutritional twist.
How Is This Cheese & Tomato Carbonara Made Vegan?
Traditional Carbonara is made with eggs, bacon and cheese. A cholesterol bomb! No wonder it is called CARB-onara!!!
Using my recipes for a vegan cheese sauce and coconut bacon, you’ll taste all of the familiar flavours without the negative health effects. The best thing about plant-based eating is, you can have your favourite dishes with a few tweaks of ingredients.
Coconut Bacon
This recipe for Coconut Bacon is a life changer. Coconut ribbons are seasoned with spices, liquid smoke and roasted to perfection. It is savoury, sweet, salty and crispy-just like the real thing.
The Ultimate Vegan Cheese Sauce
Make this cheese sauce once and you’ll be hooked. Rich, cheesy, creamy, completely plant-based. Better than any store bought. Made with whole foods and nutrient rich ingredients. It’s baffling that it tastes so good.
This vegan cheese sauce is so versatile. It’s not just used in this Vegan Cheese & Tomato Carbonara recipe you can use as a pasta sauce, on tacos, in quesadillas, burritos, wraps in sandwiches as a nacho dip-really anywhere you want cheesy goodness.
Here is the recipe for the The Best Vegan Cheese Sauce. You are going to want to print it out or memorize it. I promise.
More Pasta Recipes To Enjoy
If you enjoyed this Vegan Cheese & Tomato Carbonara and you’re in the mood for more cheesy pasta, try out my recipes:
–How To Make Vegan Mac And Cheese
–Baked Broccoli Mac and Cheese
–How To Make Vegan Cashew Cheese
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The Best Vegan Cheese & Tomato Carbonara
This recipe for Vegan Cheese & Tomato Carbonara is truly the best! It is velvety and smoky with fresh pops of tomatoes and fresh spinach. This is a plant-based twist on a classic Italian dish. Comfort food with a nutritional twist.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
- Category: Pasta
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients
- 3 cups of dried spiral pasta
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1 tsp of sea salt
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2 tbsp olive oil
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1 cup of cheese sauce (recipe here)
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1 tbsp olive oil
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1/3 cup of cherry tomatoes
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¼ cup of sundried tomatoes, roughly chopped
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¼ to 1/3 cup of pasta cooking water
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2 heaping cups of fresh spinach
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¼ cup of coconut bacon (recipe here)
Instructions
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Add pasta, 1 tsp of sea salt and 2 tbsp of olive oil to boiling water in a medium size saucepan. Cook pasta according to the directions on the package until al dente (tender yet firm).
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Meanwhile, heat 1 tbsp of olive oil in a large sauté pan over medium heat. Add tomatoes and cook for 3 minutes. Add spinach and sundried tomatoes. Cook until spinach is wilted. Add cheese sauce and stir until combined.
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Sauce will be thick at this point. Add 1/4 – 1/3 cup of pasta water until it is the desired consistency.
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Drain pasta and add to saucepan with the sauce. Stir until pasta is coated in sauce. Sprinkle in coconut bacon and stir.
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Serve immediately. Store leftovers in a sealed container in the fridge for 2-3 days.
