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If you have ever been to Pizza Factory and ordered off of their pasta menu you may have run into Zucchini Noddles. If you haven't, you are missing out! This meal got it's inspiration from the Pizza Factory but I wanted to take it one step further and make a pesto sauce out of vegetables too. The whole meal is grain and dairy free and 100% vegetarian!
First, let me introduce you to my favorite kitchen tool! The Julienne Peeler. It is like a regular vegetable peeler but it has ridges in it to peel the vegetable in strings. I got mine from Williams-Sonoma for only $9.95. They are still available, just click here!
With this meal, you want to start on the pesto sauce first.
1. First you need to steam your broccoli and spinach. Cut up 3 cups of broccoli and about a cup and a half of spinach leaves. Then steam until soft.
2. In a food processor, blend all the ingredients together until it is smooth. About 15 seconds is all.
The wonderful thing about pesto is that you can enjoy it on a few different things like as a sandwich spread or as a noodle sauce.
Ingredients:
3 cups chopped broccoli
1.5 cups spinach leaves
1/2 lemon, juice
1 tsp. garlic
1/2 cup olive oil
2 tbsp. water
pepper to taste
Now on to the noddle part, which is extremely easy. With your julienne peeler, slice up one zucchini and one carrot.
After your broccoli and spinach are done steaming for the pesto sauce, toss your carrot and zucchini noodles in and they only take about 5 minutes to soften up. Then enjoy your meal!
My husband isn't an extreme vegetable lover like I am but still enjoys his veggies, so I made him a few fettuccine noodles as well and it still is really healthy!
