Are you a pasta lover but for whatever reason only eat it on occasion? Do you dream of macaroni and cheese, lasagna, spaghetti… but pass it up most of the time?
Whether it’s because you have allergies to pasta’s ingredients (like gluten) or you’re afraid of the carbs if you’re following a low-carb diet plan, I have your solution: vegetable pasta. Yes, veggies!
For this recipe, I used zucchini but you can also use other vegetables. If you don’t have a spiralizer machine (a hand-cranked device that’s super easy to use and produces spiralized noodles), you can take your hand-held vegetable peeler and you’ll just end up with wider, flat noodles instead of the spaghetti/ramen noodle shape mine are.
And, this is also a great tip for you moms and dads who try so desperately to get your children to eat their veggies so they’ll be strong and healthy.
These noodles are actually a clean slate. You can chop the veggie noodles short and add cheese for mock macaroni and cheese or use your mandolin to make extra wide “lasagna” noodles. You can omit the spaghetti sauce and add chopped veggies of your choice to the zucchini noodles and add Asian seasonings or whatever seasonings you prefer.
You could add your favorite white sauce or any other sauce. Or you could just add a little real butter and sea salt if you’re feeling like something on the simple side.
Veggie Spaghetti Recipe
Ingredients:
- zucchini (half a zucchini will do for one person – unless you’re super hungry)
- spaghetti sauce (I used canned, you can make fresh when your garden is flourishing or use some you canned yourself.)
- onion (I sautéed a small onion to add to the canned sauce because I love onion.)
Directions:
- Spiralize the zucchini.
- Sautée the onion.
- Prepare your sauce – or open a can.
- Add sauce to the onion and heat through.
- Plate up and enjoy!
Note: To warm up the zucchini noodles and soften them up a bit, I put them in a glass bowl and filled the bowl with hot water. I’d say you could boil them for a short time, too. Of course, this defeats the purpose of raw noodles – BUT it’s way better than highly processed noodles made from white flour!
Have you ever had raw or cooked veggie noodles? Did you enjoy them? Would you have them again? Do you think your family would enjoy this recipe or a variation of it? Let’s talk!
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