Extra Satisfying Spaghetti Sauce

This high-vegetable, high-protein, Extra Satisfying Spaghetti Sauce will fill you up and taste delicious, with or without noodles!

This recipe has a few moving parts to make it taste best. If you're very pressed for time, you can throw the turkey in the slow cooker with the veggies, and just scoop some of the meat out before you blend it to help retain the texture. The flavor is not quite as rich as with browned turkey, but it's still very good and will save you a step!

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Extra-Satisfying Spaghetti Sauce

Ingredients

• 1 yellow onion

• 3 large carrots

• 3 celery ribs

• 2 red or orange bell peppers

• 1 large zucchini or yellow summer squash

• 3 garlic cloves

• 2 15-oz cans diced fire roasted tomatoes

• 2 tablespoons Italian seasoning

• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

• 1 teaspoon dried or fresh basil

• 1lb ground turkey

• 1 box of your favorite pasta

• crushed red pepper flakes, to taste

• parmesan, optional, for serving

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Directions

Utilities: a slow cooker, an immersion blender, a spaghetti pot, a pan

1. Dice the onions, carrots, celery, peppers, and squash. Crush the garlic cloves with a knife blade. Put the veggies and garlic in the slow cooker. Pour in the cans of tomatoes and the Italian seasoning, Worcestershire sauce, and basil.

2. Cook in the slow cooker for about 6 hours on high, or until all the veggies are very soft.

3. When the sauce is cooked through, blend with an immersion blender or in a tradional blender in batches, until smooth.

4. When it's time to eat, boil the pasta per the package instructions. Brown the turkey meat in the pan, chopping with a spoon until the meat is brown and cooked through. Combine the cooked ground turkey and the sauce.

5. Serve hot, with the meat sauce over the spaghetti. Add crushed red pepper, parmesan, and some extra basil to taste.

Note that this Extra Satisfying Spaghetti Sauce will be filling! You probably will eat much less of it than your usual servings of spaghetti. If you have extra, as you probably will, this sauce stores in the fridge for a few days and freezes well.