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in Recipes, Dinner, Lunch, Meal Zucchini noodles with tomatoes, mushrooms and Parmesan sauce
Zucchini noodles or zoodles are not only a fantastic gluten-free and low carb alternative to pasta but a brilliant base for any tasty dish. This healthy and colorful combination of zucchini, mushrooms and Parmesan cheese is as rich and flavorful as a creamy pasta. Zoodle-doodle-doo!
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servingservings
Ingredients
- 1½ lbs 650 g zucchini
- 2 tbsp 2 tbsp olive oil
- 4 (1 lb) 4 (450 g) tomatotomatoes
- 8 oz. (3¼ cups) 230 g (800 ml) mushrooms
- salt and pepper, to taste
Sauce
- 1 cup 240 ml heavy whipping cream
- 1 cup (2¾ oz.) 240 ml (80 g) shredded Parmesan cheese, save a handful for serving
- salt and pepper, to taste
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Making low carb simple
Instructions
- Using a julienne peeler, slice the zucchini lengthwise into ribbons. Put the ribbons in a bowl and sprinkle with olive oil. Set aside to marinate and soften.
- Seed and chop the tomatoes finely. Chop the mushrooms.
- Heat a little olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add the mushrooms and cook until they are lightly browned. Season with salt and pepper.
- Stir together the cream and grated cheese in a saucepan. Bring just to a simmer over medium heat and cook a few minutes until you obtain a thick sauce. Season with salt and pepper.
- Reserve some tomatoes and mushrooms for garnish.
- Gently fold the vegetables, including the zoodles, into the cheese sauce, and garnish with the reserved tomatoes and mushrooms.
- Finish with the Parmesan cheese shavings.
Recommended special equipment
A julienne or vegetable peeler.
About the recipe
This recipe is part of a collaboration with Pascale Naessens and comes from her book "Pure & Simple"
Thank you.
Saeed
If you look in the Nutrition info for this recipe you can see it is described as "Liberal low carb". It has 24g carbs per serving. I would guess that some people using the site want to eat more carbs than is usually given for a strict ketogenic diet, and this recipe might appeal to them. Also, I've no doubt that some people using the site are vegetarian and might be delighted to find a recipe which contains lots of vegetables.
Gwen: The idea of not being in ketosis, eating a healthy paleo meal and unable to lose weight is ridiculous. People lose weight on Paleo at 50-70g of carbs all of the time. You do not need to be in ketosis to lose weight.
Zucchinis and tomatoes vary in size - tremendously. How many grams Zoodles? How many grams Parmesan - my Parmesan - grated by me - comes out very fluffy. How do I know if 125 ml (precisely 1/2 a cap) is enough?
Is this a cold dish? Are the Zoodles supposed to cook a bit in the simmering sauce?
Simple may be fine, but these instructions carry it a bit too far.
Thank you for another great recipe!
P.S I warmed the zucchini and tomatoes with the cheesy sauce and mushrooms so they were nice and soft.
Great! So glad you love it!