Close your eyes and picture a mountain of angel hair pasta, tossed with your favorite tomato sauce, pesto sauce, or peanut sauce, piled high on your dinner plate...but instead of white or whole wheat pasta it's raw zucchini pasta!
All you need to make this amazing and delicious treat is about 5 minutes, and a kitchen gadget called the Saladacco Spiralizer. It's very affordable (less than $20), and the best price I found was through Amazon . Do your homework though and shop around online to see if you can do better. It's worth every penny, and you and your kids, friends, and family members will have so much fun creating and eating these beautiful dishes.
Here are a few other spaghetti 'flavors' to try along with zucchini:
carrot, cucumber, squash, radish and beets!
Toss in your favorite sauce, and you have a delicious, satisfying, healthy low-calorie and 'guilt free' meal!
I have seen recipes with other firm vegetables like sweet potatoes, onions, daikons, jicama, parsnip and winter squash, though I haven't tried them out as of yet.
Food texture plays an important part in creating our comfort foods, and the Saladacco Spiralizer brings new texture variations to experiment on vegetables that would traditionally be eaten cooked. It's a great way to eat a wider variety of raw foods which are packed full of vitamins and nutrients.
It also has a function that creates an endless ribbon of connected thin slices to make decorative flowers and borders. Your creativity can make your food as eye-appealing as it is appetizing. Hope you try it soon.
Wishing You Excellent Health!
2 comments:
Hi
i love your blog and thanks for sharing a lifetime of healthy eating with the rest of us.
hugs
irene and Ken
Never heard of this machine...sounds wonderful and looks like I'll be making many creative "pastas".
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