This Creamy Vegan Miso Pasta Sauce is rich, perfectly flavourful and super easy to make. The umami-rich sauce paired with meaty mushrooms makes the best plant-based dinner!
Why you’ll love this Creamy Vegan Miso Pasta:
- it’s luxuriously creamy
- it’s light and healthy
- it’s full of flavour
- it’s packed full of meaty mushrooms
- it’s easy to make
- it’s ready in 25 minutes
- it’s easily customisable and can be adapted to whatever vegetables you have on hand
- it’s nut-free optional
- it’s gluten-free
- you can easily make it grain-free or paleo
- it makes a satisfying dinner!
What is miso?
Miso is a Japanese seasoning made from fermented soybeans and has a rich, salty flavour. It’s a good source of protein, vitamins and minerals, and contains plenty of friendly probiotics.
In traditional Japanese cuisine, it’s used in sauces, dips, spreads, soups and stocks, but it also works in many other dishes like this pasta sauce!
Tip: Miso sometimes contains gluten, so make sure to use gluten-free miso if you’re gluten-free. You can buy miso in most supermarkets, local health stores, Asian supermarkets or online.
How to make this Creamy Vegan Miso Pasta
- Cook the garlic and mushrooms in a frying pan
- Add the plant-based milk and miso
- Add the cooked pasta
- Mix well and add extra vegetables if you like!
See below for substitution suggestions.
Tips for making this recipe:
- you can use either unsweetened almond milk or unsweetened cashew milk
- for a nut-free version, you can use unsweetened oat milk or soy milk (though soy milk will have a stronger flavour)
- you can use any type of mushrooms – I used shiitake mushrooms as I love their rich flavour, but any type will do
- you can use any type of pasta – I used brown rice spaghetti
- you can make it grain-free or paleo by using pea pasta, red lentil pasta or edamame noodles
- add tofu, green peas or edamame for extra protein.
More creamy vegan pasta recipes:
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Creamy Vegan Miso Pasta Sauce (GF)
Ingredients
- 200 g (7 oz) pasta (gluten-free if necessary - I used brown rice spaghetti)
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil (or sub coconut, olive or rapeseed oil)
- 2 garlic cloves , minced
- 100 g (3.5 oz) shiitake mushrooms , roughly chopped (or any other mushrooms)
- 230 ml (1 cup) unsweetened almond milk (or unsweetened cashew milk or oat milk for a nut-free version)
- 2 heaped teaspoons miso (ensure gluten-free if necessary)
- Pinch salt to taste
Instructions
- Boil the pasta according to instructions on packet
- Heat oil in frying pan and add the garlic and mushrooms once the oil is hot - fry for around 7 minutes until softened
- Add the almond milk, miso and salt
- Drain the pasta once cooked and add to the frying pan
- Mix well and add more almond milk if it's looking too dry. Taste and add more salt if necessary
- Enjoy immediately!
Notes
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Janette
Hi, this recipe looks great. I have a question: I I love putting a lot of ginger in everything, do you think this recipe could take some extra ginger along with the garlic?
Rhian Williams
Thank you! Yes ginger would be a lovely addition I think!
Adam
How do you get the almond milk to thicken? Mine is just sitting in a puddle at the bottom of the frying pan
Rhian Williams
Sorry to hear that – when I mixed mine with the miso, the miso thickened it up. And when I added the cooked pasta, the pasta absorbed some of the liquid which thickened up the sauce. Did the texture of the sauce improve once you added the cooked pasta?
Sammy
This was so ridiculously easy and really really tasty!
I added nutritional yeast and a splash of lemon juice to mine:)
I added broccoli to the pasta pot just before the time was up and then sprinkled sesame seeds over the whole lot to serve – a new favourite for sure!
Rhian Williams
Thank you so much, so glad you liked it! And thank you for sharing your substitutions, that’s so helpful to know.
Allison
Oh my gosh, this is so tasty! I’ve been searching all over the place for a dairy-free, creamy past recipe, and thanks to you I finally found one that’s healthy, tasty, and easy to get the ingredients for. I’ll definitely be making this again- thanks so much!
Rhian Williams
Thank you so much, so happy to hear that!
Elle
This was so good!!! I was a little leery about it because I had never used miso before and it smelled disgusting, but I absolutely could not get enough of this pasta. I also was thinking that it would probably make a really delicious mushroom soup, but since I am not a cook, I wouldn’t know how to go about that. I used azuki bean miso and chick pea pasta to go soy and gluten free. Great meal!!
Rhian Williams
Thank you so much, so happy to hear that! Ooh yes good idea – you could use this mushroom soup recipe for inspiration and add a bit of miso I think? https://www.rhiansrecipes.com/vegan-cream-of-mushroom-soup-gf/