Therefore I was searching for an alternative and came across Zoodles. They are noodles made from zucchini and I love zucchini.
There are a few different methods to create them, but the method I opted for was to use a spiraliser. I picked up a cheap one on Amazon for €10.
With the spiraliser ready, I was ready to create my first Zoodles. I decided to make with a tomato garlic sauce.
My ingredients are (to serve 1):
I realised I forgot to grab the tomato puree and garlic that I added. So made an extra photo here.
Sugar and Spices 😀
So after gathering the main ingredients, the first thing I did was put the spiraliser together and figure out how it works.
It was pretty straight forward to put together and I was ready to create my first Zoodles.
At first I used the blade already in, but realised I needed to add a different blade to make the zoodle shape. Once in, the Zoodles were created very quickly!
Here I am trying to get a camera shot of me spiralising! 😀
I soon had my first plate of Zoodles from the first zucchini.
Next I chopped up not so finely the small onion and tried to saute it with just some water to be healthy and not use so much oil.
Into the mix I added to chopped up mushrooms and some thinly cut carrot.
Once the onion was no longer clear, I added in the tinned tomatoes with around 150ml of extra water.
To make it more tomatoey, I added two tablespoons of tomato puree.
After that was simmering for a few minutes, I added in the brown sugar and spices from earlier. I left this to simmer for around 20 minutes.
I then created more zoodles with the last zucchini. Once ready, it was time to saute them in a pan for 2 minutes to heat them up.
Here you can see how long some of the zoodles were.
I added some olive oil to a pan and heated it up before adding the zoodles to it.
I put on a strong heat for around 2 minutes, important to not saute them too long. Other options are you can boil them like regular pasta or eat them raw. The raw option was quite tempting for me to be honest.
The final dish was very tasty and eating the noodles was very similar to regular pasta 😀.
Bon Apetit!
Thanks for checking out my recipe.
My other recipes:
Tikka Massala
Stuffed Peppers with a Homemade Tomato Sauce and Broccoli
Zucchini with Garlic Zucchini Fried Rice
Introducing the C.L.T.
Vegan Aubergine di Parmigiana
Vegan Homemade Quesadilla with Guacamole
Vegan English Breakfast
Homemade Vegan Bigos - My First Polish Dish
Vegan Spanish Style Chilli
Vegan Cauliflower Curry
Fusilli Bolognese ala Vegan - Glutenfree Edition
A Twist on a German Classic!
Mushroom Curry made with love and leftover ingredients
Credits:
All photos and images are my own. Above VEGAN image created by myself in Canva with inspiration from the TShirts made by Tim Schieff that you can see here.
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