There’s magic in pasta. You know it. I know it. But we also know there’s guilt in pasta. With this guilt-free and delicious recipe, you can now enjoy a creative way of feeling like you’re eating pasta without the bloat, or the hour nap after you clean your plate. Vegetables, surprisingly, make a healthy, flavorful, almost-too-good-to-be-true substitution for grain pasta.
Serves 4
Ingredients:
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 2 cups store-bought marinara sauce (I like a good organic jar of marinara sauce)
- 1/4 cup fresh cilantro, minced
- 1/4 cup flat-leaf Italian parsley, minced
- Sea salt or Sea Veg
- 2 tsp soy sauce
- 2 medium green zucchini
- 2 medium yellow zucchini
- 2 medium carrots
Method Of Preparation:
- In a medium saucepan set over medium heat, add a teaspoon of olive oil. When the oil is hot, add the minced garlic and cook until softened, about 1 minute. Pour in the marinara sauce, along with the cilantro, parsley, pinch of Sea Veg or sea salt, and soy sauce. Bring the sauce to a gentle boil and allow to cook for about 10 minutes while you make the rest of the dish.
- Using a vegetable peeler or a madoline, peel thin ribbons of the zucchini and carrots, lengthwise, end to end.
- Heat a tablespoon of olive oil in a medium pan over medium heat. Add the zucchini and carrot noodles and a little sea salt or Sea Veg. Cook for about 1 to 3 minutes, depending on how crunchy you like the zucchini and carrot noodles to be. Divide the noodles among the plates. Spoon sauce over each bed of noodles. Enjoy!
Photographer Credit: Nicole Garner
