Zucchini Macaroni

If I find myself home alone for a meal I tend to experiment . . .

I have seen on other blogs people using zucchini to make "pasta".  They usually use a fancy tool called a spiralizer to cut it into lovely noodle-like shapes.  I don't have one of those gadgets.  I do however have a Genius Nicer Dicer Plus (also known as my chopping gadget) which is great for chopping vegetables.

 I used this to cut my zucchini into small macaroni-sized pieces.

Then I stir-fried the zucchini macaroni in a little coconut oil.

Added some pre-cooked gluten-free grains I had in the fridge.  I used Rice Plus which is a blend of brown long grain rice, white and red basmati rice and black rice, white quinoa, buckwheat, millet and black sesame seeds. I heated this through.

Then I used my chopping gadget again to dice some tomatoes...

and placed the zucchini and grain mixture in a bowl, added the diced tomato, mixed it all together with some Savoury Yeast Flakes*, topped with some cracked pepper and voila!

This was quite delicious!

*Savoury Yeast Flakes is the Australian name for Nutritional Yeast Flakes.  It is a deactivated yeast product that is a natural source of most of the B Group vitamins.  Some brands may be fortified with B12 which is only found naturally in animal products.  It has a cheesy flavour.

Further Reading: http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2011/10/what-the-heck-is-nutritional-yeast.html

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