About thirty minutes ago, I made flourless pasta.
How did I make it?
I pulled out my Tri-blade plastic spiral vegetable slicer and made some zucchini pasta. The spiral vegetable slicer can be used for a lot of vegetables as shown in the above photo, but I mainly use it to make vegetable pasta.
I must say raw veggie pasta is the quickest type of pasta that I prepare. It doesn’t take long compared to the traditionally made flour based pasta that I also make, and I will say that I’ve grown to like this even more. The main vegetables I used to make ‘pasta’ are zucchini. Zucchini, has a light taste which doesn’t overpower the dish. Also, you can marinate it and it will adapt the flavor of whatever you add to it. So what did I add to this?
Pasta Sauce
- roma tomatoes
- cilantro,
- soaked cashews
- soaked walnuts
- freshly ground spices and herbs
Directions
Add the pasta sauce to food processor and blend all together to make a ‘creamy tomato nut sauce’.
In hindsight I should have chopped up some tomatoes to add a bit of color, but even without it still was very good. The good news is, I made enough for leftovers.
Keeping with lent, the majority of what I consumed was juice. This afternoon, my upgraded Breville arrived and I must say that I’m thrilled that I decided to make the switch.
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Zucchini? I think I saw something like this in friend’s blog. Ummmm….I think i’d just stick to the usual, thank you. They have fish noodles in Sabah, our neighbouring state in the country – very popular but I did not like it at all. Did not feel like eating noodles.
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@suituapui, Initially that was my reaction but I tried it about eight or nine years ago. My first reaction was, this is different. Different not in a bad way, but the consistency was not like pasta noodles. I had it again, and well… I actually liked them and had fun swapping them in place of the traditional pasta. I still make pasta, but as for eating I think the vegetable pasta are now my favorite!
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This is my friend’s blogpost on her zucchini noodles. Hers is not vegan though…
http://phonghongbakes.blogspot.com/2014/02/stir-fried-zoodles.html
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Thanks @suituapui, I popped by her site and left a comment on that post.
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Looks and sounds great can wait to do more raw pastas soon
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@Jennifer, They turned out well, yesterday my one meal of the day was veggies wrapped in nori. That was delicious.
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Oh! That sounds great, indeed!
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@Jennifer, It turned out great. My daughter loves nori and will eat it plain. 🙂
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