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I've changed my life around and now I am enjoying The Lighter Life. I love cooking and especially baking lovely desserts, but I wanna stay away from little no-no's like too much sugar and fat. I live in Belgium where the 'low-carb and low-fat movement' is just starting to begin so I found myself looking for recipes with easy to find ingredients and metric cooking measurements. Since they were hard to find, I decided to make my own! My desserts may never win beauty contests, for baking with bio ingredients will mostly give you flat cakes and pies. But lord will they win over your taste buds and still have you fitting into your skinny jeans. I invite you all to try out some recipes, adapt a couple where you see fit and above all, learn to enjoy the lovely taste of freshly baked, healthy goods.

zaterdag 11 mei 2013

Zucchini Noodles with Bacon

If I would have known how good this turned out to be, I would have exercised more restraint and waited to eat so I could take some pictures. If your low carb diet is making you miss a hot bowl of delicious pasta while you are curled up on the sofa, watching your favorite tv-show, then boy do I have good news for you! Is it that I've already forgotten what pasta tastes like that I'm loving this version so much? Or is it that I just simply love a delicious meal in which I don't have to say goodbye to taste to let in good nutrients? It's a simple recipe, as fast as any pasta but it's way healthier and it definitely fills you up. The combinations are endless and so is my love for the wonderful zucchini!

 

Ingredients:

1 medium sized zucchini
Half an onion
Half a yellow bell pepper
100 ml tomato sauce
100 gr bacon cubes

Optional: some mozzarella for taste

Way to do it:

  1. Peel your zucchini and chop off both ends. With a slicer, slice thin strips. Turn the zucchini around as you go for even strips. Cut the strips into thin 'spaghetti' strands. Stop slicing once you get to the middle of the zucchini where the seeds are and just use your knife to cut the center into small pieces. On this blog, we don't waste any zucchini!
  2. I used a wok but you can use any kind of big frying pan. Don't add butter, you can fry the bacon in it's own fat.
  3. Add the onion and bell pepper and fry until the bacon becomes crispy and the onions start coloring.
  4. Add the cut up center of the zucchini and fry some more. This would be the perfect time for seasoning, but since the bacon already has such a strong taste, I didn't season mine.
  5. Then add in the zucchini strips and fry some more before you add the tomato sauce. Let the entire thing cook until the water has evaporated and your sauce sticks to your 'noodles'.

  6. Put in a bowl, top with some mozzarella,get comfortable on the couch and dig in!

    And now, once you know how to do it, you can make this dish with scampi, fish, chicken, minced meat... Basically, anything you would plop on your noodles, you can plop on this wonderful zucchini alternative.

    Enjoy
    xx

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