One way to combat excess water is to salt your zucchini noodles before you use them. The water within the zucchini seems to wait until you are comfortably sitting with fork in hand before deciding to advance, with military-like tactics, suddenly and silently, to the outer edges of your plate, where it pools tauntingly, turning your once Instagram-worthy #healthyeating #selflove #putthephonedownandjusteatit meal into a sad, swampy mess.īut things do not need to end so disastrously! There are certain measures one can take to help prevent watery zoodles from dampening your dinner. of the veggie noodle kingdom for our purposes here) is that because of the much higher water content, a plateful of zoodles marinara can go from hot and delicious to soggy and disgusting a no time at all. However, the most major gripe one may have with zoodles (let’s focus on the zucchini-based O.G. Vegetables are mostly water, and therefore less calorically dense than other food types (e.g., the food of the gods, pasta) which is what makes noodles made of vegetables particularly attractive to those who love a good spaghetti-with-tomato-sauce fork-twirling session but are trying to eat more vegetables, fewer calories, or fewer carbohydrates (though vegetables do still contain carbs, just less of them).
The trouble begins, however, when cooks fail to take into consideration the vastly different makeup of vegetables compared to the flour-and-egg or -water compound that is pasta. But zoodles need not be maligned by those who aren’t necessarily on a particular diet or by the most ardent pasta purists, because when properly prepared, zoodles can be totally delicious. The popularity of these vegetable noodle-shaped pasta alternatives has positively skyrocketed over the past year, with fans of recently trendy low-carb diets (like the raw-vegan, paleo and keto diets) going absolutely bonkers for the pasta alternative. Oodles of zoodles sitting coolly upon the shelf, next to sweet potato, butternut squash, and beet variations.
#Cook zoodles full
Walk into any large supermarket these days, and the first thing you will see, stacked tall and proud in the prepared produce section (just past the brightly colored flowers) will be a display case full of vegetable noodles.
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