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HEARTY VEGGIE-FULL ZUCCHINI PASTA 

Most of us love pasta, but it’s not much help when we’re trying to be healthy and lose weight. Not to mention all that pasta sauce which makes you stack on the kilos. I made a little variation on ‘spaghetti bolognese’ by using as many veggies as possible, and still keeping a yummy taste! It is SO filling!

• Finely chop one small onion, a few cloves of garlic, half a red capsicum, half a stalk of celery, one large tomato, a bunch of parsley and 2 mushrooms (optional).
• Using a vegetable peeler or a julienne peeler, finely shred a large LONG zucchini and a LONG carrot into LONG spaghetti!
• Use a tbps of olive oil in a pan and fry off the onion, garlic, capsicum and celery until the kitchen smells delicious and the veggies are slightly caramelised. 
• Add the tomato, mushrooms & parsley along with 1 cup of water & simmer until the veggies are very soft and there is hardly any liquid. 
• Toss in the ‘spaghetti’ and combine with the veggies! Allow to cook together for about 5 minutes or until the zucchini and carrot are soft. 
• Season well with salt and pepper! 

And you’re done! And you’ve used 99% veggies in this dish and NOTHING ELSE except water and olive oil! BUT, if you want more flavour, add the following (I did this today!)

• 1tspn hot paprika (for a bit of warming hearty bite!)
• 1tspn cumin (for some aroma and spice!)
• 2tbsn dried italian herbs (oregano is especially amazing)