Healthy Pasta Recipe!

I'm sure you're not surprised by yet another one of my healthy pasta recipes. I'm always trying something new when it comes to pasta, keeping it as fresh and healthy as possible. This time I tried incorporating more veggies to the pasta; usually if I'm eating pasta it's for dinner, and I don't like eating carb-heavy grains at dinner, so the more veggies the better.

 First thing's first, sauté a splash of extra virgin olive oil and two packages of washed grape tomatoes covered, on low heat until they're tender enough that they burst when you smoosh them with a wooden spoon (usually around 10-15 minutes.

Once you've smooshed them into a grape tomato saucy mess, add a can of organic tomato sauce, a small handful of dried basil and dried oregano, one bay leaf, a dash of onion powder and some chopped up fresh garlic. Cover and keep it on low heat for 15 minutes.

Then, add a bag (or some of a bag) of frozen green beans. Cover, keep cooking on low. I like a ton of green beans, but B kind of eats around them.

Then, some parm cheese. I use real freshly grated parmesan. The fat free stuff is full of chemicals, basically, so don't ruin your pasta with it. Plus, all you need is a little bit. Don't be afraid of real cheese!

Stir it all up, cook for another few minutes and viola! Chunky pasta sauce. The tomatoes are still somewhat chunky, so it's like a thick marinara sauce. Put this over some whole grain or brown rice pasta. Since you've got the tomato chunks and green beans, you'll be eating less pasta and more veggies, but your brain will think you're eating pasta. Trickery.

If you like it spicy (like B does) you can put some crushed red pepper flakes in it. He loooooves the sauce. If you're not sold on the idea of green beans in pasta, you can leave them out, but it kind of defeats the purpose. :)

Let me know if you guys like this!! Do you have a healthy pasta recipe?