Zoodles - a great pasta recplacer

I'm busy adjusting my diet restriction to my daily life and the hardest thing to replace for me is pasta. I'm a big pasta-fan and I liked to eat pasta 2-3 times a week. I know pasta can make you fat so I already learned to eat more (healthy!) sauce than pasta, never ate the white/wheat type and mostly ate spelt pasta. But now my doctor told me I should completely skip grains from my diet. This means: no pasta! So I went on a search for a grainfree pasta replacer.

I wanted the replacer to be made of vegetables because increasing the amount of vegetables you're eating is never a bad adjustment. The extra fibres and vitamins are very welcome!
The first thing I tried was pasta sauce on cauliflower. It tasted well but that was mostly due to the delicious fish sauce I served it with. What I missed was the structure of spaghetti or tagliatelle. So the search went on!

The next thing I found out was love at first time. On the internet I came by a recipe called zoodles, a word combined of zucchini and noodles. It looked fabulous and I'm a big fan of zucchini so I decided to try this out.

A lot of people use a special spiralizer to make beautiful evenly sliced spaghetti-like zoodles. But I handcrafted my way true this recipe.

Frist I produced long vertical slices of zucchini using a cheese slicer. Than I used a knife to slice into thin tagliatelles. It took me ages to get this done so I would highly recommend to buy a vegetable slicer or spiralizer if your planning to make this more often. I definitely will!

After I was done with all the slices I put the zucchini in a large wok and stir-fried the zucchini for a couple of minutes. Et voila: your pasta replacer is ready.

I made a spinach and tomato sauce with garlic prawns to go with it but it will taste good with any sauce (as long as you like zucchini).
I found out a lot of people use veggies as a pasta replacer so I will be trying out different recipes with different types of vegetables in the nearby future. But first I need a spiralizer! ENJOY :)