Pasta sauce without onion/ garlic or tomatoes???

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I have ibs. I've found tomatoes garlic and onions are triggers. Does anyone have any pasta sauce alternatives, everything seems to be tomatoes based?

If you are following a low fodmap, you can use garlic infused oil with your tomatoes and add roasted red peppers for some flavour, if you still want a tomato based sauce. The bit of garlic that can isnt good for ibs isnt soluble in the oil apparently.

cheese sauce
pesto

we often cook chopped courgette or carrots (or other veg) together with the pasta. then add olive oil, herbs and cubed feta after draining.

Olive oil base, anchovies, capers, peppers, parsley

Use pureed aubergine or pureed cauliflower as a base then add other ingredients to it if you want something lighter than cream based

this is delicious and in regular rotation in our house - you will need to be careful with the pesto and read the ingredients, perhaps even make your own to guarantee no garlic but will taste great regardless

We use garlic oil instead of garlic - there js something about it only having the oil soluable (may have dreamt that) parts in the oil and it being the rest that causes digestive issues. It's something to do with fodmap too. But it works for me and gives so much flavour to a lot of sauces. A stock cube and cream/yoghurt can also be a really good base.

What about a classic sage, butter & parmesan sauce

I make a broccoli pasta sauce with cream cheese. Throw in the broccoli with the pasta and cook it until you can basically mash it. Mix cream cheese in with the smushy broccoli and maybe a handful of cheddar or whatever other cheese you like and plenty of pepper, stir in your pasta and away you go. Great quick meal.

Use garlic and herb Boursin rather than regular cream cheese- is lovely

Love Boursin in a lazy pasta sauce.

I also love pasta primavera and if you make your own pesto you can leave garlic out!

This is a lemony & mint version from Jamie Oliver - again you could leave the garlic out.

Two regular recipes around here

"No cook" pasta sauce: while pasta is cooking, in a bowl mix a tub of ricotta (low fat cream cheese also works but is richer I feel), some grated parmesan, lemon zest, a couple of teaspoons of olive oil (we use garlic oil but assume you'd use regular), generous ground pepper. Just before the pasta is ready, add a big bag of baby spinach to the water to wilt. Remove a cup of the cooking water then drain. Put the pasta back in the hot pot, add the ricotta mix and some of the reserved cooking water to loosen. Mix well. Add extra squeezed lemon juice and salt/pepper to taste and a generous amount of parmesan cheese.

(you could add cooked bacon or chopped capers).

Sausage, creme fraiche pasta - roughly remove the sausage meat from the skins so you have rough meatballs - 3 to 4 per sausage (doesn't have to be perfect or evenly sized and bits of mince style meat alongside is fine). Fry gently to brown, add a teaspoon of fennel seeds and toast quickly. Then add equal amounts white wine and milk (for a packet of sausages I'd do about 100ml each) and add a handful of frozen peas. Simmer gently for about 5 minutes then add a generous dollop of creme fraiche and stir through. serve with black pepper, parmesan and salt to taste.

I made miso butter greens pasta last week and found it delicious, and very quick to make. It calls for garlic in the recipe but it's not structurally integral so you could leave it out.

look up Rachel roddy recipes! An A to Z of pasta. So many amazing alternatives there :)

Nadiya’s beetroot and feta pasta is an easy one, if you have a blender.

Beef and trifle - what's not to love?

There was no added sugar or anything in with the strawberries, so the balance of acidity/sweetness/fragrance wasn't that dissimilar to that of tomatoes, which I think is why it turned out unexpectedly edible.

Squash makes a good substitute for tomato in a sauce,