That’s spaghetti with garlic, oil and chili to me and you – with added courgette noodles! This is a nice simple dish, it makes a good side along with salad. This is probably the easiest italian dish you will ever know, it originates from the region of Abruzzo, and is a (according to the internet) a very popular week night meal. It doesn’t traditionally have courgettes shredded into it, but hey whats wrong with adding a little extra veg?
Ingredients:
250g of spaghetti
enough vegetable stock to cook your spaghetti
3 medium courgettes/ zucchini
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 red chili, seeded and finely minced
2 big, or 3 small, cloves garlic, minced
a generous pinch fine sea salt
a generous amount of freshly cracked black pepper
a pinch of italian seasoning (optional)
Method:
Cook the spagehtti in the stock for how ever long the package dictates. Whilst its cooking begin shredding your courgettes with a julliene peeler, or if your a lucky individual who owns a spiralizer then use that (if you dont hae either then slice using a regular peeler and chop into strips). Plonk into a big bowl or dish, your spaghetti should be cooked by now, so drain it in a colender and chuck in the bowl with the courgette noodles. whisk the remaining ingredients in a cup with a fork, pour over the courgettes/spaghetti and toss together, simple right? serve along side some cheap bagged salad and whatever else you fancy!
it looks delicious! just a meal for me.
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Thanks! 🙂
What a lovely idea – that looks gorgeous, it really does!
Thanks!
courgette spaghetti is ace. wanted to try and make them soon-ish, and it’s so cool that I can now refer to your easy and delish recipe 🙂
It is indeed ace! I was kinda raw once and just ate it all the time with raw walnut avocado pesto, it was the bees knees!
yummy!!!! (will try)
I’m now testing out what to use as grated cheese substitute and settled with crushed raw cashews (if it’s going to be baked, but otherwise roasted) and a spice blend – “ceasar salad” by herbaria (rock salt, garlic, lemon est and such). this does the trick in excellence. but no melting of course 🙂
I really wanna try tofu “feta” on top of salads.
tofu “feta”? o.O is it a product or a recipe?
Recipe, google it! I haven’t tried it yet but it sound divine!
cool, I will – thank you a lot for just the idea! 🙂 right now I’m testing the “forks over knives” cookbook. it’s seemingly hard to avoid two things in vegan cuisine: substituting ingredients/recipes and repeating ingredients. hmmm. 🙂
Your photos just get better and better! Delicious 🙂
Thanks!
Just managed to make it to “I” in my overstuffed RSS Feed Reader that got neglected while I was staying with my daughters over Easter. What a great recipe and perfect for spring degustatory machinations…YUM 🙂
Hope you had fun at your daughters!
Had a ball and they cooked me gorgeous vegan Korean food all weekend 🙂
That sounds seriously lush! Jealous!
I will send my daughters to slave over your hot stove while you are at work. Can’t do better than that ;). You can keep them in a cupboard while you are home…I am sure they won’t mind 😉
Hi Alexander! I just wanted to let you know I nominated you for a Liebster Award! 🙂 http://veganperks.com/2013/04/09/vegan-perks-blog-chatter-liebster-awards-2013
It is heading towards dinner time on our side of the world, and 3 little courgettes are calling to me from the fridge interior……sounds as though they would like to be part of this incredibly yummy looking dish! Your blogs always look – and sound – so beautiful. Thank you so much for such great food offerings!
Take care
Janet 🙂
If you like garlic you will love this, if not feel free to tone down the garlic. And thank you for the kind words 🙂
So I’m going to have to buy a julienne peeler because this looks amazing. And so fresh and healthy for spring (if we ever get a proper spring so basically never).
The joys of English weather! If you get a chance to make it let me know how it goes 🙂