Spaghetti Sauce with Cauliflower

My husband loves the Ragu Bolognese recipe off this site served over gnocchi...holy cow, lead weight in my stomach! So I have tried to lighten it up a bit by trying this recipe and the Sicilian Lentil Pasta Sauce (also on this site) and he has remarked that it definitely has the mouth feel of a meat sauce...though the flavors are not there yet, but he's willing to keep trying my experiments. Luckily! I felt the three cans of crushed was a bit much and adding tomato paste may help round out the flavors,Thank you impellizzeri kitchen for posting this recipe!

Given the submitter's claims, I was expecting the cauliflower to add more interest and texture to this sauce than it actually did. Can you tell there is no ground beef? Absolutely! (but that's not much of a surprise). It IS a great idea as a budget stretcher and a very good way to get more veggies in. It was very bland but that is easily remedied and the texture of the sauce could easily be improved as well by using less crushed tomatoes and more diced tomatoes with tomato paste. I would make this recipe again with tweaks.

I was looking for a recipe to make use of a head of cauliflower and found this. Incredibly simple and healthy. A great lighter sauce perfect for vegetarians. Per other peoples reviews I added more seasonings (dried basil, oregano, red pepper flakes and some locatelli cheese as I normally do to my meat sauce). I also used one can whole tomatos and two cans tomato sauce as I just like the viscosity of my sauces better this way, but I feel the only flaw of the sause is its overwhelming tomato taste, id maybe only use one can of paste next time. Finally I added sliced mushrooms, as I'm a mushroom nut. Highly recommend this dish.

i really like the texture the cauliflower gives this sauce. i added more herbs to suit my tastes because as written it wouldn't have been flavourful enough for me.