These Bolognese sauces are made delicious with paleo ingredients and rich, delectable flavors. Serve them over spiralized veggies, or even as part of a veggie-based lasagna with sliced zucchini or eggplant forming the noodles. Go wild!
1. Zucchini Noodle Bolognese
This amazing Bolognese dinner is made with ground beef, zucchini, beefsteak tomatoes, onion, garlic, oregano, tomato paste, and other amazing flavors. Garnish with a few fresh basil leaves—my favorite part! The freshly shaved parmesan is optional.
Photo: Perchance To Cook
Looking for a way to sneak some more veggies into your kiddo? If they’ll eat a Bolognese sauce, they’ll eat this sneaky broccoli Bolognese using ground buffalo, ground turkey, ground beef, onion, garlic, tomatoes, broccoli, and a bit of honey to compliment the flavors.
3. Slow Cooked Bolognese With Sweet Potato Spaghetti
Here’s a yummy Bolognese you can made in your slow cooker. Don’t be intimidated by the long ingredients list—it’s mostly seasonings, and trust me, you don’t want to leave those out. Allspice, cinnamon, paprika, red pepper flakes, and sherry vinegar really make this sauce amazing.
4. Zucchini and Yellow Squash Noodles With Turkey Sausage Bolognese
This sauce is made from cremini mushrooms, onion, garlic, tomatoes, turkey sausage, and other fantastic flavors. Replace the sugar in this recipe with coconut sugar, or just leave it out entirely to make the recipe suitable for a Whole30. These squash noodles are so easy, too!
5. Sweet Potato Noodles With Beef and Bacon Bolognese
Have you ever thought about putting bacon in your Bolognese sauce? Well you should! The bacon adds an incredible flavor, which mixes in this recipe with ghee or grass-fed butter, coconut milk, dry white wine, celery, garlic, tomatoes, and other fantastic flavors and ingredients.
Photo: Lexis Clean Kitchen
For a hearty Bolognese sauce to keep you warm on chilly nights and fill you up with plenty of protein and vegetables, go for this recipe with grade-fed beef, garlic, carrots, onion, baby bella mushrooms, peas, fresh basil, red wine, tomato past, and fresh ground black pepper.
7. Easy Weeknight Bolognese
This sauce comes together in less than 30 minutes, so it’s perfect for a busy weeknight dinner over spaghetti squash. You’ll need ground beef, sweet onion, sliced mushrooms, garlic, tomato sauce, and seasonings. Using a pre-made tomato sauce (paleo friendly) keeps this sauce simple.
8. Zucchini Pasta With Quick and Easy Bolognese
To make these sauce totally dairy-free, try replacing the parmesan with nutritional yeast for a creamy, cheesy flavor without any cheese. You’ll need to start with good tomato sauce, fresh basil, ground turkey, garlic, and, of course, plenty of zucchini to shave or spiralize for your noodles.
9. Nomato Bolognese
Avoiding nightshades or tomatoes? Whatever the reason, you can count on this recipe for a lovely and delicious sauce that has no tomatoes in it. You’ll get the flavor from red wine vinegar, bacon grease, cloves, carrots, beets, homemade stock (bone broth is perfect), and more.
10. Crock-Pot Bolognese Sauce
Love the flavors of Bolognese sauce but avoid meat right now? Feeding a vegetarian for dinner tonight? This awesome Bolognese sauce is meat-free and made with ground cauliflower, diced red onion, garlic, oregano, basil, diced tomatoes, and vegetable broth.
11. Slow Cooker Turkey Spaghetti Bolognese
This Bolognese sauce is made with turkey breast mince, red onion, bell peppers, celery, chestnut mushrooms, chopped tomatoes, red wine vinegar, tomato puree, garlic, rosemary, and oregano. The seasonings in this sauce give it the perfect flavor to top some zucchini noodles.
12. Venison Bolognese
For many families, game meat is a sustainable way to get healthy proteins into their bellies. Venison is an excellent choice, and you can use it a number of different ways, such as this yummy Bolognese sauce with dry red wine, coconut milk, chopped celery, bacon, and more.
13. Paleo Pasta Alla Bolognese
This beautiful Bolognese sauce is served over spiralized rutabaga noodles for a realistic appearance, and is made with beef stew cubes, celery, tomatoes, garlic, crushed chili peppers, cinnamon, cloves, bay leaves, and other seasonings for a traditional-style Italian meal.
Photo: Inspiralized
14. Crock Pot Cauliflower Bolognese With Zucchini Noodles
This beautiful Bolognese sauce is served over spiralized rutabaga noodles for a realistic appearance, and is made with beef stew cubes, celery, tomatoes, garlic, crushed chili peppers, cinnamon, cloves, bay leaves, and other seasonings for a traditional-style Italian meal.
