Zoodles in Chunky Red Sauce

So, you’re not eating meat…or cheese (or any dairy), or bread, or sugar, or a bunch of processed foods…and your wondering what in the world you should eat. Well, it doesn’t have to be boring that’s for sure!

Time for a little fasta (fake pasta). I’m not sure if that will catch on…but who really cares. ha!

Anyway, I thought why not some of those fun zoodles I’ve been seeing everywhere and some robust chunky sauce.

I used the veggetti/spiralizer to make my noodles but really there are a bunch of different techniques you can use.

Red Sauce
-1 sweet onion (any onion is fine, I like sweet onions so that’s what I used)
-1 green pepper
-8oz of sliced fresh mushrooms (I used baby bellas)
-3 cloves of garlic
-1 tbsp dried oregano
-1 tbsp dried basil
-1 tbsp dried parsley
-1-28 oz can crushed tomatoes
1- 28 oz can diced tomatoes

-Dice and saute all veggies (minus garlic) in olive oil until slightly tender on medium heat.
-Crush and add garlic toward the end (be careful not to burn the garlic…yuck!)
-Cook for a few minutes-stiring
-Add oregano, parsley, basil and salt and pepper (don’t add too much salt….there’s no coming back from that)
-Add tomatoes
-Stir and cover
Simmer for what seems like forever…like an hour…really longer. (I was hungry so it got an hour)

Fasta (fake pasta)
-Make zoodles… or use premade from the fresh section (Zucchini…in case you are new to the zoodle scene)
-Saute zoodles in olive oil over medium heat to desired texture (I like mine with a little bite)