This Creamy Spaghetti Recipe Filipino Style is a delicious vegan take on the classic favorite pasta dish of the Philippines. It's sweet, creamy, and unlike any spaghetti, you've had before.
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What is Creamy Spaghetti Recipe Filipino Style?
Filipino Spaghetti is a traditionally made with a blend of spaghetti noodles, ground pork, and a unique mixture of tomato sauce and banana catsup or ketchup, often with a creamy twist from evaporated milk or all purpose cream.
This dish is beloved in Filipino gatherings for its sweet and savory flavor, making it a staple at celebrations and fiestas. Read on below for the creamy vegan twist of this Filipino household favorite.
Substitutions
- You can use non-dairy milk as a replacement for coconut milk.
- If you don't want to use coconut milk, feel free to use evaporated milk. However, spaghetti will no longer be vegan.
Variations
- Use gluten-free pasta and ensure your Filipino-style spaghetti sauce is gluten-free as well to make it gluten-friendly.
- This recipe kid-friendly as the sweetness of the sauce and familiar flavors make it a hit with kids.
Storage
- Place leftovers in an airtight container and refrigerate for up to 3 days.
- Reheating: Warm in a saucepan over low heat, adding a splash of water or coconut cream to restore the sauce's consistency.
Top Tips
- If you love texture in every bite of this vegan creamy Filipino spaghetti, you can fry crumbled tofu with seasoning and top it on the cooked spaghetti when you are ready to serve it.
- The spaghetti that is loaded with lots of cheese is definitely a delicious treat! After cooking, plate the vegan spaghetti and grate your favorite vegan cheddar cheese.
Ingredients
Gather the ingredients for this Creamy Spaghetti Recipe Filipino Style and once the ingredients are all ready, let's begin!
For Pasta:
- water
- coconut oil
- pasta
For the Sauce:
- coconut oil
- onion
- garlic
- vegetarian ground protein
- vegetarian hot dog
- spaghetti Filipino sauce
- tomato paste
- coconut cream
- brown sugar
- salt
- pepper
Instructions
In a pot over medium heat, add 3 cups of water and bring to a boil:
Add 1 tablespoon of oil, and salt and boil pasta according to the package's directions, or for about 7 to 9 minutes or until firm to bite:
Strain spaghetti well and set aside:
While letting the pasta drain, let's start making the spaghetti sauce.
In a large saucepan, heat the oil. Sauté the minced onion and cloves garlic until the onions are translucent and the garlic is cooked:
Then add ground vegetarian protein, sliced hot dogs, and stirring occasionally, cook for about 3 minutes or until lightly browned:
Next add the Filipino spaghetti sauce, tomato sauce, coconut cream, and mix:
Allow the sauce to simmer for about 2 to 4 minutes, then add sugar, salt, and pepper:
To serve, spoon the spaghetti sauce over the spaghetti noodles:
Top it with vegan cheese and enjoy!
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Creamy Spaghetti Recipe Filipino Style
Ingredients
For Pasta:
- 3 cups of water
- 1 tablespoon of coconut oil
- 250 grams of pasta
For the Sauce:
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- 1 small size onion minced
- 6-7 cloves of garlic minced
- 80 grams vegetarian ground protein
- 150 grams vegetarian hot dog sliced into 3s
- 250 spaghetti Filipino sauce
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- ½ cup coconut cream
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- ½ tablespoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- In a pot over medium heat, add 3 cups of water and bring to a boil. Add 1 tablespoon of oil, salt and cook the spaghetti according to package's direction or for about 7 to 9 minutes or until firm to bite. Drain well and set aside.
- In a large saucepan, heat the oil. Sauté the onion and garlic until the onions are translucent and the garlic is cooked.
- Then add ground vegetarian protein, sliced hot dogs and stirring occasionally cook for about 3 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Next, add the Filipino spaghetti sauce, tomato sauce, coconut cream, and mix. Allow the sauce to simmer for about 2 to 4 minutes, then add sugar, salt, and pepper.
- To serve, spoon the spaghetti sauce over the spaghetti noodles and top with vegan cheese.
Notes
Filipino-styled spaghetti is my FAVORITE pasta dish EVER. If you haven't tried it, you are missing out. I've shared this dish with my friends at church, school, and workplace, and everyone loves it!
Filipino Spaghetti is usually made with lots of meat so when I became vegetarian, I stopped eating it because most people cooked it with ground beef and beef hot dogs. And growing up, I wasn't much of a cook and usually ate what was in front of me.
Fortunately one year, my family started to adopt the vegan vegetarian lifestyle and one of my aunties decided since all of us are now vegetarian, she would make Filipino Spaghetti vegan. I was ecstatic!
Throughout the years, I've tried so many different versions of this dish with different kinds of vegetarian meats. Here are my top 2 ground vegetarian meats and top 2 vegetarian hot dogs.
Ground Vegetarian Meat
- Loma Linda
- Beef TVP - (TVP= Textured Vegetable Protein)
Vegetarian Hot Dog
If you can't get these, feel free to use whatever you have available.
Something to note, most Filipino Spaghetti recipes use condensed milk or banana ketchup as the key ingredients to make the spaghetti sweet. I decided to go without it so the recipe can stay vegan. 🙂
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Joellen Saringo says
What is the Filipino spaghetti sauce? Do I buy it?
Lainey says
Hi Joellen,
Yes. You may buy it in Asian stores near your area or try to order in online shops.
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Alyssa says
Thank you for this recipe that allows many vegans to try this delicious dish! A few suggestions could be added onto this recipe:
- Specify clearly if coconut milk or coconut cream is used as you use them interchangeably throughout
- Add the onions and garlic to the instructions as I forgot to add them first before the vegetarian meat
- I was confused as to when I put the hot dogs, but then I realized you wrote, "sliced hot" so it would be good if you could say "add in hot dogs" to clarify
- The salt and pepper could be adjusted at the end as my dish tasted quite salty so I had to compensate by adding more sugar
Thank you again for this recipe! My vegetarian classmates really liked it! 🙂
Lainey says
You're welcome, Alyssa. I updated the recipe already. Thank you for the heads up! It's good to know that you made this recipe and that your classmates liked it. I appreciate it!
Julius says
Wow, this vegan twist on Filipino spaghetti is a game-changer! Sweet, creamy, and packed with flavor. I couldn’t even tell it’s plant-based.
Lainey says
Thank you so much, Julius! 🌱🍝 I'm thrilled you enjoyed the vegan twist—it’s all about keeping the sweet and creamy flavor we love while going plant-based! 💚