A couple of weeks ago a reader suggested this strange contraption to me. "A Paderno World Cuisine A4982799 Tri-Blade Plastic Spiral Vegetable"
Here's the description: It's a "spiral vegetable slicer that cuts vegetables and fruits into curly, ribbon-like slices. By placing the vegetable or fruit on the prongs of the wheel and turning the wheel while pushing the base toward the vertical julienne blade, continuous spiral strands."
Since I am always on the lookout for grain free tasty foods, I knew I just had to have it. Sure, I could have done something similar with a vegetable peeler or a lemon zester, but this contraption is so cool. And since I still insist on cooking for an army, even though it's just 2 of us for dinner most of the time, oh who needs to think logically... I wanted it and I got it OK? ;)
Pretty self explanatory right out of the box.
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| Prep your vegetable |
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| stick it on the pokey prongs |
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| push it towards the blade and the other pokey tube thingy... |
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| crank it and keep going until your veggie runs out and you have a mountain of "noodles" |
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| this is the final result |
I sprinkled the noodles with salt and let them sit in a colander for a while to make them sweat out the extra liquid in them.
They are delicious enough raw, cover them with your favorite sauce or seasonings and go to town. Or you can sautee them and add some fresh basil pesto like I did here:
Put your pesto on that and let it melt. Toss and devour. Go ahead, have seconds. I did. I ate that whole thing, it was sooo good!
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| That whole large zucchini raw is about 50 calories |
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| Sauteed in 1 TBSP olive oil makes it about 170 calories |
You are welcome!
I wonder what I can shred/noodle/slice/curlyQ next?
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