This delicious zucchini dish is the perfect nutritious twist on spaghetti and marinara. Enjoy it yourself when you want a light, low-carb dinner, or serve it to kids as a way to sneak vegetables onto their plates in place of pasta. We recommend investing in a spiralizer (you can get one online for $30); it makes this recipe a cinch to prepare and it opens up a whole new world of options for other veggie-based recipes.

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Ingredients

  • 1 jar organic pasta sauce
  • 4 large straight zucchini
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1/4 cup fresh basil, chopped
  • pinch sea salt
  • pinch nutritional yeast flakes (optional)

Directions

  1. Cut off the top and bottom of your zucchinis, and add them one at a time to your spiralizer. Add the pasta-like zucchini spirals to a bowl and add salt. Massage and mix by hand.

  2. While the zucchini absorbs the salt. Turn your attention to the sauce. If you have a store bought zucchini, you can spruce it up with garlic and onion. Mince both, and sauté in coconut oil. Add the sauce.

  3. Drain the moisture from the zucchini, and either toss the full mixture into the sauce or plate the zucchini and add the sauce on top. Add parmesan or nutritional yeast flakes on top.

Nutritional Information

Calories
216
Total Fat
9 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Cholesterol
0 mg
Sodium
779 mg
Carbohydrates
29 g
Dietary Fiber
9 g
Sugars
20 g
Protein
7 g
YIELD:

4 servings