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INGREDIENTS

  • 200 g whole wheat spaghetti, dry
  • 100 g yellow onion
  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • 1 handful of fresh parsley leaves (optional)
  • 20 g Parmesan
  • 500 g zucchini
  • 2 tablespoons rapeseed or sunflower oil
  • 200 ml soy cream (can be replaced with 12% cooking cream)
  • Zest of 1 medium lemon (finely grated)
  • Salt
  • Pepper

INGREDIENTS FOR THE TIP

  • Fresh basil

INSTRUCTIONS

  • 1
    First, pour a sufficient amount of water into a large pot for cooking the spaghetti, add salt, and bring to a boil over high heat. Once the water starts boiling, add the spaghetti to the pot and cook them for 14⁠–⁠15 minutes over medium heat.
  • 2
    Meanwhile, prepare the other ingredients: Peel and finely chop the onion and garlic. Coarsely chop the parsley leaves. Finely grate the Parmesan. Wash the zucchini and use a peeler to create long strips from the skin and part of the flesh without seeds. Cut the part with seeds into cubes measuring 1 cm × 1 cm.
  • 3
    After cooking the spaghetti, take 200 ml of the water in which the spaghetti was cooked into a cup, and then drain the spaghetti.
  • 4
    Now take a pan and heat 2 tablespoons of oil in it over medium heat. Then add the chopped onion, chopped garlic, and zucchini cubes to the pan and sauté everything for 2 minutes over medium heat. After this time, pour 100⁠–⁠200 ml of the spaghetti water into the pan to soften the sauce, add the zucchini strips, soy cream, lemon zest, salt, and pepper, and cook the entire mixture for 1 minute over medium heat. Finally, add the drained spaghetti and chopped parsley leaves to the pan and mix.
  • 5
    Divide the finished zucchini spaghetti into 4 servings, sprinkle each serving with grated Parmesan, and serve.
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INGREDIENTS

INGREDIENTS FOR THE TIP