Zoodles with Bolognese sauce

This recipe for zoodles with bolognese sauce will be enough for a family, plus some spare to freeze! If you don’t want to make as much, reduce ingredient amounts.

Ingredients:

500g organic beef mince
400g organic pork mince
1 onion – diced
1-2 cloves of garlic – crushed
About a tablespoon of Olive oil (to cook the onion and garlic in)
2 tins of tomatoes OR 1 of passata and 1 tin of tomatoes (with passata, make sure you try and get one with nothing else but tomatoes!) I usually add some water to the passata jar to rinse it out – about a cup – and then add that to the pan!
1 tub of tomato paste – again, only tomatoes!
Mixed herbs of your choice – dry or fresh
Mushrooms – as many as you want
Some frozen peas – I usually just chuck some in – probably about a cup
Some frozen corn- I usually just chuck some in – probably about a cup
1 grated zucchini
2 grated carrots – medium ones, or 1 big one
Eggplant is a nice addition too!
Kidney beans is another nice addition – or mixed beans
You can actually add any veggies you want to it!
about 1 zucchini per adult for the zoodles

How to make it:

Brown the onion and garlic in olive oil in a large pan/wok
Add the mince and brown that too
Add the tomatoes and stir in
Add tomato paste and stir in
Add all the veggies that you want and stir in
Let it simmer on the stove, stirring occasionally to let it reduce, so it becomes thicker
While it is cooking, using a potato peeler, peel the zucchinis to make long strips of zoodles!
You have two options with the zoodles. You can keep them raw (I do this) and add the pasta sauce when it has cooked, or you can lightly steam the zoodles before adding the sauce!
Once the sauce is cooked, add to the zoodles and enjoy!

10. Any spare sauce, put in containers and freeze!

151 Comments

- - ChiWren said
  - 02 Mar 2025
    9:35 pm
Love the sauce ingredients. It sounds so rich and hearty. Zoodles are something that really interest me, but I’m yet to try. I wonder what the texture of the zucchini is like. If it’s real smooshy I’d probably prefer to just eat the sauce on its own. Maybe have some extra roast veggies on the side

- - bubble6369 said
  - 31 Mar 2015
    4:02 am
We love zoodles best part is pouring hot sauce on them starts to cook them

- - mom93821 said
  - 31 Jan 2015
    11:51 pm
Yummy! looks like a tasty dish.

- - mom56842 said
  - 28 Sep 2014
    9:33 pm
That would be nice heated and served the next day on toast for breakfast.
- mom93821 replied
  
  05 Oct 2015 , 4:45 am
  Always good the day after – some how seems to taste better! 🙂
- - mom57522 said
  - 31 Aug 2014
    11:05 pm
Smart trick using the veggie peeler to make zoodles.

- - caramello said
  - 31 May 2014
    9:16 pm
looks good thanks for sharing

- - twinmum2 said
  - 31 May 2014
    8:32 am
I’d never heard the term oodles before. Love it! Great recipe. Very healthy.

- - scottie said
  - 30 May 2014
    10:03 am
will have to try this one out on my grand daughter

- - catgrrl3 said
  - 22 May 2014
    3:09 pm
what a fantastic use of veggies, love this recipe

- - mom57522 said
  - 20 May 2014
    2:27 pm
Love grating veggies and adding to meals.

- - Happymum-2 said
  - 15 May 2014
    7:17 pm
a lovely Bolognese sauce mix

- - sarah_wardleworth said
  - 12 May 2014
    12:06 am
Good read thanks for the information

- - shazzbot said
  - 30 Apr 2014
    10:59 am
I love the presentation of this meal, looks very healthy. Thanks for sharing.

- - cheezel said
  - 27 Apr 2014
    10:12 pm
What a great recipe to try on my daughter

- - aussiemum said
  - 06 Apr 2014
    7:33 am
You can now buy a ‘zoodles’ maker (basically just a cylindrical grater that makes long thin – spaghetti-like noodles). It’s a great idea and my kids love them.

- - priyachirag said
  - 29 Mar 2014
    8:11 am
Looks interesting, I’d substitute the meat with Soy mince and try.

- - linaianna said
  - 24 Feb 2014
    2:37 pm
This looks different must give this a go

- - angel_mon said
  - 13 Feb 2014
    10:59 pm
a refreshing new recipe to battle people’s reliance on carbs

- - mle00 said
  - 31 Jan 2014
    1:15 am
Cutting carbs is a great big leap in the direction of better Heath!

- - seachtheteach said
  - 28 Jan 2014
    6:08 pm
Looks great and very wholesome 🙂