Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Get the recipe for Pasta with "Fake" Sauce: bit.ly/4ubyBMM
Fake meat sucks, but fake sauce is a revelation. Sugo finto (that's Italian for “fake sauce”) proves that you can get a deeply savory, silky, ragu-like sauce by using vegetables to their full potential.
Instead of leaning on masse-produced imitation meat, we shred a whole heap of onions, carrots, celery and—crucially—portobello mushrooms and cook them down until they resemble bits of slow-cooked ground meat. Shredding ruptures the cellular walls, releasing water and sugar so you get a melded mass of flavor.
We also brown a healthy amount of tomato paste (the only tomato product in this recipe), building a foundation of deep umami. It's hearty. It's elegant. It's meaty (without any meat, real or otherwise).
0:00: How to make a satisfying, hearty, vegetarian pasta sauce without fake meat
0:35 How to grate vegetables
0:56 Why should you grate your vegetables?1:27 Should I use tomato paste in pasta sauce?1:55 How to perfectly sauce pasta
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Get the recipe for Pasta with "Fake" Sauce: bit.ly/4ubyBMM
Fake meat sucks, but fake sauce is a revelation. Sugo finto (that's Italian for “fake sauce”) proves that you can get a deeply savory, silky, ragu-like sauce by using vegetables to their full potential.
Instead of leaning on masse-produced imitation meat, we shred a whole heap of onions, carrots, celery and—crucially—portobello mushrooms and cook them down until they resemble bits of slow-cooked ground meat. Shredding ruptures the cellular walls, releasing water and sugar so you get a melded mass of flavor.
We also brown a healthy amount of tomato paste (the only tomato product in this recipe), building a foundation of deep umami. It's hearty. It's elegant. It's meaty (without any meat, real or otherwise).
0:00: How to make a satisfying, hearty, vegetarian pasta sauce without fake meat
0:35 How to grate vegetables
0:56 Why should you grate your vegetables?1:27 Should I use tomato paste in pasta sauce?1:55 How to perfectly sauce pasta
#milkstreetrecipes #milkstreetcookingschool #milkstreetathome #vegetarianpastasauce #vegetarian #vegetarianrecipes #vegetablesauce #fakesauce #sugofinto #italiancooking #italianfood #italian
