Zucchini Pasta
"Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut her up with cookies..."
Seems at the start of each year we all try to shed some unwanted weight . In my kitchen I am trying to find healthy substitutes for my family's favorite meals . This recipe is a huge risk in the Miket kitchen, replacing whole wheat pasta with Zucchini. I'm sure I can't fool them by covering it in sauce so ......I talk up how healthy and delicious it's going to be.
This is an easy weeknight meal. The most preparation comes when slicing the vegetables. I used a mandolin that I permanently from my mother! The picture below is what your "pasta" will look like before it is cooked.The recipe goes as follows:
Figure on one medium large zucchini per person.
Boil some salted water, and add the noodles to the water to cook for about 1 minute.
Take out and immediately blanch in cold water, or cold running water, to prevent over cooking (The hot sauce will heat up the noodles sufficiently)*I did not cool because I did not used marinara sauce.
That's it!
Toss with your favorite tomato sauce, with a garden basil pesto, with a creamy Alfredo sauce, whatever you wish. The noodles are very low calorie, and can be very refreshing on a sultry summer evening.
You could alternatively serve these as a side dish, boiled as above, and then briefly sauteed with melted butter and Parmesan or other hard Italian cheese (freshly grated!!!) and salt to taste. Or try these noodles for a variation on your favorite pasta salad…perfect for a BBQ. Or you could even join the latest food craze and serve these without first boiling them and join the raw food movement (salt the noodles for about 20 minutes, and rinse too soften them).
Perfect for diets, perfect for gluten intolerant people, perfect for low carbers…and perfect for anyone who just has too much zucchini!
Figure on one medium large zucchini per person.
Boil some salted water, and add the noodles to the water to cook for about 1 minute.
Take out and immediately blanch in cold water, or cold running water, to prevent over cooking (The hot sauce will heat up the noodles sufficiently)*I did not cool because I did not used marinara sauce.
That's it!
Toss with your favorite tomato sauce, with a garden basil pesto, with a creamy Alfredo sauce, whatever you wish. The noodles are very low calorie, and can be very refreshing on a sultry summer evening.
You could alternatively serve these as a side dish, boiled as above, and then briefly sauteed with melted butter and Parmesan or other hard Italian cheese (freshly grated!!!) and salt to taste. Or try these noodles for a variation on your favorite pasta salad…perfect for a BBQ. Or you could even join the latest food craze and serve these without first boiling them and join the raw food movement (salt the noodles for about 20 minutes, and rinse too soften them).
Perfect for diets, perfect for gluten intolerant people, perfect for low carbers…and perfect for anyone who just has too much zucchini!
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