Ingredients:
- 1 package pasta
- 12 oz mushrooms
- 2 small onions
- 6 cloves garlic
- 1 tbsp italian seasoning
- 2 vegan sausage links
- 6 oz impossible meat
- 28 oz jar raos pasta sauce
- 8 oz spinach
- 2 handfulls of basil shredded / torn
- 8 oz vegan mozzarella
- 200 ml red wine
- olive oil
- salt / pepper
Steps:
- Sweat the onions over low (2/10) heat until soft ~10 minutes (season with salt)
- Move onions to the side of the pan and add the mushrooms 50 ml of wine and season with salt.
- Increase heat to 5/10 and stir mushrooms until all of the moisture has evaporated
- Begin heating a large pot of salted water.
- Add the garlic and cook for a minute until fragrant.
- Add the italian seasoning and mix to combine.
- Reserve mushroom / onion mixutre to a seperate plate.
- Increase heat to high 8/10 and add avocado oil
- Cook the italian sausages turning every ~2 minutes (8 minutes total)
- Brown the ground beef (break into small chunks, put in pan and cook for 3 minutes then stir then 3 minutes more till cooked through)
- Remove the ground beef and italian sausages
- Deglaze pan with remaining wine
- Slice the italian sausage into 1/2 inch rounds
- Return the sausage, ground beef, mushroom / onions to the pan and add jar of pasta sauce and spinache. Simmer over low heat.
- Preheat oven to 400 F
- Boil pasta for about 2/3rds of its cooking time (9 minutes for 12 minute pasta)
- Add pasta to the sauce, mix well to combine.
- Add half the cheese and half the basil and mix into the pasta / sauce mixture
- Top with remaining half of the cheese, cover and bake for 30 minutes
- Remove lid, increase heat to 450 and bake for 10 more minutes
- Broil until nicely colored on top
- Top with remaining have of basil
