The vegetarian gravy recipe - tasty and harmless!

Are you vegetarian? Do you want to try a new, harmless and tasty sauce? You should definitely give the vegetarian gravy a chance; it's cooked quickly, it takes the same time of the pasta and it is, of course very good.

Ingredients for the vegetarian gravy

• 1 onion;
• 1 middle part of the celery (we call it garzuolo);
• extra virgin olive oil (or butter, but the olive oil is healthier);
• 3 or 4 tomatoes (or tomato sauce);
• salt;
• aromas. The choice here is up to you; I suggest a mix of fresh basil or marjoram, sage, chervil, pepper and nutmeg. Don't panic: a couple of these ingredients is enough.

Preparation of the vegetarian gravy

I suppose you want to dress your pasta with this sauce. In that case the first thing to do is to boil the water and, in the meanwhile, prepare the gravy.

Chop thinly the onion and the garzuolo of the celery; mix them together.

Take a pan, put inside of it the chopped onion and the celery with a little extra virgin olive oil. Light the fire and wait a couple of minutes until they brown.

Sprinkle the gravy with a little of water, better if you take it from the pasta, which is cooking in the meanwhile.

Add the tomato sauce (or the tomatoes previously sliced, peeled and shredded up). Complete the work with salt and the spices. As I said before, the herbs in this case could be a chopped of fresh basil or marjoram, sage, chervil, pepper and nutmeg to taste. But it's really up to you.

If you decided to use fresh tomatoes, put them in the gravy together with their water and their seeds.

Lastly you might also add a bit of chopped mushrooms.