With the amount of zucchini growing in our garden, we’ve been scrambling to come up with different ways to eat it all! I mean, it’d get pretty boring if you made and ate the same thing over and over again, right?! Well, I don’t know about you but I would! Nothing beats a little variety in life especially when it comes to food. And speaking of variety, what could be a better example than pasta? Pasta comes in all shapes and sizes, and now there’s the new fad of making pasta out of vegetables! I remember the very first time I saw pasta made out of vegetables, I scoffed and said what kind of ‘pasta’ is that? Little did I know that whoever came up the idea was a genius!
My mom made this zucchini pasta the other day and I actually fell in love. I’m usually fair-game to all types of cuisines but this was definitely a game changer! This was undoubtedly the BEST way to enjoy pasta without having the “OMG, I can’t believe that I just ate all those carbs!” and “There’s goes my diet!” reactions follow short after.
For all the mom’s out there that struggle to get some veggies in your kids’ bodies, I think I’ve found a solution for you: a pasta made solely out of vegetables! Now your kids can enjoy the perks of eating ‘pasta’ while you bask in your glory of secretly feeding them vegetables 😉 Bon appétit!
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Ingredients
Method
- Cut all of the vegetables according to the way they're listed in the ingredients
- Heat the olive oil in a 5 quart pan on a high flame
- Place the onion in the pan and sauté for about 1-2 minutes (until it's translucent)
- Add the green beans, mushrooms, broccoli, carrots, green and red bell pepper, corn kernels and green peas to the pan
- Sauté all of the vegetables for about 2-3 minutes until they are crisp-tender
- Add the green and yellow zucchini, basil leaves, salt, red chili flakes, crushed black pepper, Italian seasoning and oregano to the pan, sauté and turn the flame off
- Serve immediately with pasta sauce
- *Don't cook the zucchini or overcook the other vegetables or else they will release water
- **We used a small julienne blade for the zucchini and carrots
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