I had an awesome roommate when I lived in Hawaii that used to make Peanut Butter Pasta all the time and I thought she was crazy until I ate it. Well for some reason today I had the biggest hunkering for some but obviously my Paleo awesomeness denied that idea so I decided to remake it. There are endless possibilities on how to modify this slightly to your taste so feel free to get creative after you taste it but I promise you will love it. Oh and not to mention from having all the ingredients on the counter to eating it was close to 10 minutes so if you work fast this is a definite go to. I hope you enjoy and come by and let me know what you think. Hope everyone has a wonderful Friday :).
Almond Zucchini Saute
Ingredients
- 1 zucchini whole
- 2 tablespoons almond butter
- 1 teaspoon coconut aminos
- 1 teaspoon lime juice
- water to thin
- roasted red pepper flakes to taste
- salt and pepper to taste
- coconut oil for cooking
Instructions
- Using a potato peeler or julienne peeler, hold your zucchini upright and make long strips pulling your peeler towards your counter
- Rotate the zucchini with every strip so you can use as much of the zucchini as possible, you should be able to get down to where the zucchini is about 1/2 inch thick. You can slice this part by hand or save for a salad, up to you
- In a small mixing bowl, combine your almond butter, coconut aminos, and lime juice and mix well. It will be kind of pasty which is why you are going to add water in SMALL amounts, NO MORE THAN 1 Tsp to slightly thin it out
- Once its nice and mixed, add in as many red pepper flakes as your little spicy or lack there of heart desires
- Put some coconut oil in your preheated pan and add your zucchini paying close attention and stirring well often. Don't want it to burn
- After you have cooked for about 3-4 minutes, add in scrape in your bowl of almond butter sauce and stir well
- Continue sauteing for about 2 minutes or until everything is coated well
- If you like your zucchini and little crispier, you can leave it in longer and that is up to you
- Remove your pan from the heat, plate this amazingness, season with salt and pepper if you so choose and ENJOY.
- This as a side dish will serve 2, but you may want to double the recipe even just for yourself :)
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Anything I can sub for Coconut Aminos
TY George. This looks AMAZING! Can’t wait to try it out
You can use tamari (gluten free soy sauce)
This was both my first “peanut butter pasta” and my first time using the spiralizer on zucchini. Absolutely amazing and took maybe 10 minutes!
I think zucchini is one of my favorite things to spiralize. Glad you liked it!
Another winner :) I seriously need a julienne peeler b/c I attempted to slice these by hand and they didn’t cook evenly b/c I don’t have a steady hand haha. But it tasted great!
Yea this is hard to do without a julienne peeler. It is so worth the 3 bucks or whatever
Made this for dinner tonight and it was quite tasty. Thanks for sharing! :-)
i've been craving thai peanut pasta for literally YEARS. i can't wait to try this… except i can't seem to find coconut aminos here in Australia!! thank goodness i'm heading stateside for a visit in a couple weeks – plan to fill an extra suitcase with them and the Enjoy Life Choc Chips lol! thanks for another outstanding recipe idea mate!
Your welcome Faye thanks for coming by :)
Ah ha! So that's where the love of macadamia nuts comes from ;) I'd love to go to Hawaii some day…
I'm Chinese, and we love peanut our sauces! I may have to borrow your idea and do like a "Dan Dan" noodle style dish sometime ;)
Thanks George!
Faye @ GreenOrganicMama.com
That looks great! Comfort food at its best. My mom used to add peanut butter to stir-fried cabbage, I loved that dish and your zucchini reminded me of it.
I just got mine, it was heavenly, took me about 1 minute to do a whole zucchini
Argh I really need to get that julienne peeler!!