Protein Pasta Recipe | Vegan Bolognese

Recipe Note

High-protein pasta has never been this easy and delicious! With our protein pasta recipe, you’ll have a meal on the table in just a few minutes that is not only simple and affordable, but also really protein-rich and delicious.
Pasta and protein are an unusual combination for many – but yes, pasta can also be part of a balanced, protein-rich diet. Combined with fresh vegetables and a light sauce, pasta becomes a balanced lunch.

The Best High-Protein Pasta Sauce

Many high-protein pasta recipes simply use high-protein spaghetti and make a regular sauce to go with it. But between us: often these noodles are just not quite what you’d want – the texture isn’t right and the taste isn’t ideal either. For us, the best solution is to use regular pasta (preferably whole wheat pasta to pack more fiber and valuable nutrients into your dish than pasta made from white flour) and simply make a protein sauce. It tastes like a delicious, intensely aromatic Bolognese, and you don’t even notice the extra portion of protein.
Of course, you can still use protein-rich pasta made from legumes (lentils, chickpeas, etc.) and add EVEN more protein to your dish. Pasta made from black beans is particularly trendy right now! Alternatively, you can simply add these legumes directly as protein sources to your sauce and cook a kind of chili sin carne!

How can you make a protein sauce yourself?
It’s super easy! For our protein pasta recipe, we use soy chunks as a minced-meat substitute and Vetain’s neutral protein powder. We cook our Bolognese with soy chunks and add the protein powder shortly before serving. This gives our sauce additional protein and even makes it creamier.

Our Protein Powder: Vetain’s Vegan Protein Neutral

May we introduce it? Vetain’s Vegan Protein Neutral – the neutral-tasting protein powder at a glance:

• 5-component protein: rice, pea, hemp, pumpkin seeds and flaxseed as protein sources

• With organic ingredients

• Neutral, natural taste – perfect for sweet and savory recipes

• Free from many allergens such as soy and lactose and artificial additives & sweeteners

• High quality: produced under strict standards in Germany and laboratory-tested

• Nutritional values at a glance: 375 kcal and 77 g protein per 100 g, per serving (30 g): 112 kcal, 23 g protein

• Versatile to combine: ideal for baking, cooking or mixing into smoothies, shakes and bowls

We may be a little biased, but for us, Vetain’s protein powder is the ideal ingredient in the Protein Pasta recipe. It not only tastes delicious, but also contains various plant-based protein sources that perfectly complement your vegan, protein-rich recipe.

Why High-Protein Pasta Dishes at All?

Many people may ask themselves when seeing this recipe: does everything always have to be high protein? No! Not at all.
The fact is, however, that there are many reasons why people pay attention to a protein-rich diet: athletes want to build muscle, vegans want to consume enough protein without animal products, and especially for women, protein is an important part of daily nutrition.
Many high-protein recipes today are still incredibly boring. Eating nothing but rice and chicken every day is not our thing. With this recipe, we show that it can be done differently. This protein pasta recipe is a welcome change for protein fans in an otherwise sometimes dull high-protein world. A recipe where you don’t immediately taste the protein. A recipe that is simply delicious and, at the same time, contains a little more protein.

If you’re a protein fan, this protein pasta recipe is exactly right for you – and if you don’t usually pay attention to your protein intake and are still skeptical: just try our fitness pasta recipe and let yourself be convinced. Our protein tomato sauce with soy chunks is really delicious and not only suitable for protein freaks.

Substitution Table

How often do we want to recreate a recipe, but certain ingredients are missing or we don’t like individual components? For this case, we’ve put together a substitution table for you so you can adapt the protein pasta recipe exactly the way you like it! Simply swap individual ingredients as you wish!

• Soy chunks → vegan minced-meat substitute, lentils

• Olive oil → other plant-based oils and fats

• Pasta → all types of pasta (also zoodles made from zucchini for a vegetable-heavy, gluten-free option)

• Vegetables → omit

• Vegan red wine → alcohol-free wine, vegetable stock

• Strained tomatoes → chopped or peeled canned tomatoes (best briefly blended)

• Oregano → Italian herbs of your choice

• Smoked paprika powder → sweet paprika powder
  

Our protein pasta is vegan, but you can of course also use animal-based ingredients if you want!

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