So for all you people who want to cut down on carbs, but still love pasta! This is a great alternative! I seriously I had no idea I was eating a ton of veggies...I mean...it felt like a salad combined with pasta...kinda taste/feel in my mouth. XD You just gotta try it out! It's awesome really!
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| Used a veggie peeler. Quite simple really. |
So I used a veggie peeler. Most blogs/recipes said to use a mandolin or some other fancy device I do not own. We don't even got a grater. >O< I know. Asian household ok...we just chop everything haha
SoOooo I used a peeler and it worked great! I mean I didn't get Angel hair thin noodles but it did the job. Plus I don't think I would have liked it so thin...feels like it would get mushy. This was a good size. Flat noodle style. If you ever had Asian flat noodles you know what I'm talking about.
Ingredients
- 2-3 Zucchini (I used green and yellow orange ones)
- Extra virgin olive oil (or any other kind of healthy oil...Grapeseed oil, Coconut oil to give different aroma)
- Cloves of garlic
- Red bell pepper
- Broccoli
- Shitake mushrooms
- Some shredded white chicken breast
- Half an onion
- Chinese Cooking Wine
- Any kind of soy sauce (there are healthier choices but I just used regular)
- Himalayan salt
- Black pepper
- Garlic Chilli powder
- Dill (optional)
- Parmasean cheese (optional)
Prepping: 10-15mins
Clean all vegetables and ingredients you plan on using. Take the zucchini and use the peeler like as if you were peeling the skin off. You'll get small to medium sized strips. That's perfect for me. If you like smaller strands for your "pasta" size then try using some other kitchen tool? I want to try using a grater the next time I try this out again. Everything else cut it as you like.
I also used a Roast chicken and stripped shreds of white meat from it to use in the stir fry.
Set aside all the chopped up veggies and have your spices near you to start cooking!
Disclaimer: I'm the kinda cook that doesn't normally follow recipes and cooks on my own whim...soOoo the instructions I'm about to give is simple but also totally on whim/instinct but it came out DELICIOUS which is how my random concoctions turn out anyways.
Cooking: Pretty fast 10mins if not less XD
First heat your pan on a medium heat pour in some olive oil (you don't want to overheat your oil its bad for your olive oil you lose a lot of good properties) Throw in your chopped onion and sliced garlic cloves. Let is simmer cook for about 1 minute or until it gets fragrant. I like to really "fry" my garlic so I leave it in a bit longer before I throw in other stuff. I also like throw some pepper and salt in that and let is flavor the garlic/onion.
Then proceed to throw in all your veggies you wanna use. Totally optional and however you want. I did mine with an Asian flare. Broccoli first because it takes longer to cook. And eventually threw in the bell pepper and mushrooms after. I use this Chinese cooking wine (its not that expensive you should be able to find it at the local Asian grocery store) So what a lot of Asian dishes get that lovely aroma you eat from home cooking or some legit Chinese restaurents. IT'S THIS! I'm telling you this stuff is the SHIT Lol. So toss some over the veggies let it sizzle and cover it with a lid so it steams the broccoli a bit. Then throw in the rest of your veggies (NOT YOUR ZUCCHINI PASTA We're gonna save that for the end) So for taste I used any soy sauce just a few dashes (you dont want to drown the freshness with soy sauce)
So cook until you how you like it. I like it with a crunch so after less than 10mins i turn the heat off. Then I took a separate pan (so not to tangent tooo much, my parents are vegetarian so I was cooking for them and me. So for the chicken I cooked separately for this reason) I heat the pan on medium to low heat with rosemary olive oil this time (I love the taste with the chicken breast) tossed in the chicken let it start to sizzle a bit and then threw in my zucchini pasta shreds! Threw some dill on top to add some extra flavor.
Then i mixed the in the veggies stir fry into that and topped that with some garlic chilli powder for spice/kick.
and done! Cooking the zucchini pasta for less than 5minutes. You don't want it to get mushy. If you don't mind the crunch then you dont even have to cook it. Just make your stir fry and throw it on top of your bed of zucchini "pasta" and the heat from the stir fry should soften it a tiny bit.
I topped it with some Parmesan cheese (after several posts you will see I basically throw cheese in like everything....) >O< I love fusing cuisines. Hehe Enjoy! Please post/comments on your results! I love to hear other peoples versions of zucchini pasta!
-Karie
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