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Low Carb Courgette Noodle Recipes

Deespee23

Deespee23

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Type of diabetes
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(Sorry about double posting in the Low-carb forum - I treid to get a Mod to move this but I can't send PMs yet. I thought this place might be a more apprpriate home for it as there's a couple of recipes involved.....)

Hi all - first, let me say this is not an advert - just a vote of thanks from a very satisfied T2 person who's currently doing LCHF (with some success, I might add...).

I bought some spiralised courgettes from the Co-Op as I had never tried them. Cooked 'em up in a stir fry with some garlic, beansprouts, a little bit of onion, big dollop of Crucial Chili Sauce and some diced Boczek (pronounced bohcheck - it's Polish smoked pork - just like a big piece of smoked bacon - very fatty but lovely. You can get it at Morrison's or most of the big supermarkets or of course the freindly neighbourhood Polski Sklep) - it's not very dear at all. You could also use bacon if you like and it works with chicken as well.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, I was amazed at how good the courgette was in the stir fry - just like noodles. So amazed, in fact, that I went on the internet looking for spiralisers. The hand-operated ones all had somewhat dodgy reviews, then I came across the Morphy Richards 432020 - electric on Amazon. Not cheap at about £50, but by then my enthusiasm was getting the better of me. Duly ordered it and a day later it arrived. Door knocker went and I was presented with my parcel.

As expected, on going back into the house, I was greeted with the usual "oh god, what have you bought now" eyes rolling routine from the OH. Undaunted, I went into the kitchen, unpacked and washed it and set it up - all of 2 or 3 minutes work. First try, I used the "pasta" cutter which gives flatter strips rather than the sqaure section produced by the "julienne" cutter and used them in more-or-less the same recipe as before.

SUCCESS - even better, because the courgette was so fresh! Absolutely brilliant - even SWMBO was impressed! (to paraphase Nigel Farage - she wasn't laughing now!)

Since then I've used it for this Pizza recipe by Laura Agar Wilson. Worked a treat.

Ingredients
  1. 2 small or 1 and a half medium courgettes
  2. 1 medium egg
  3. 30g cheese, grated - I used mild organic cheddar
  4. 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning
  5. Toppings of choice – e,g. tomato paste, red onion, red pepper and feta cheese etc.
Instructions
  1. Grate the courgette and place in a bowl. Sprinkle with a little salt and leave for 10 minutes.
  2. Pre heat the oven to 220c. Place the courgette in a clean tea towel (or you can use your hands) and squeeze the liquid out.
  3. Put it back in the bowl, add the other ingredients and mix well.
  4. Line a baking sheet with some grease proof paper, or a fancy silicone baking sheet.
  5. Spread the mixture thinly into whatever shape you like, it should be about 3-4mm thick.
  6. Bake for 10 - 15 minutes until golden brown with crispy edges. Add you toppings and return to the oven until it's done how you like it. Eat!
Yes, it worked! I've also used the courgette noodles for the following, which is my own recipe:

Beef stir-fry with black pepper and cream sauce.

Ingredients
  1. 2 small or 1 and a half medium courgettes
  2. 8oz good quality steak
  3. If you like, about 10 small button mushrooms, thinly sliced
  4. 1 small onion
  5. Garlic to your taste
  6. 1 dsp black peppercorns - very coarsely crushed in mortar & pestle (so coarse that there might even be some uncrushed peppercorns)
  7. 1 small pot double cream
  8. 1 small pot soured cream
  9. Salt to taste
Instructions
  1. Spiralise the courgette and place in a bowl.
  2. Slice the steak very thin.
  3. Slice the onion and garlic, again very thinly.
  4. Mix 1 pot of double cream with 1/2 pot of sour cream and put to one side.
  5. Preferably in a heavy frying pan (you will see why later) heat some oil until it is quite hot and add the onion, garlic, mushrooms and peppercorns and cook until the onions are just going transparent.
  6. At this point, add the steak and cook until it is just done. No need to overdo it.
  7. Add salt to taste.
  8. Take the pan off the heat and put it on a trivet. Now add the cream and stir through the steak/onion/mushroom/pepper mixing thoroughly.
  9. DO NOT do this on the heat as the cream will curdle. The heat from the pan warms up the cream sauce.
  10. While all this is going on, fry the courgette noodles in another pan for 3-4 minutes (multi-tasking at its finest).
  11. When the noodles are done, plate them up and cover with the steak/cream mixture.
Don't know what you think of this, but it works for me! So thanks Morphy Richards for a gadget that works and definiteley won't end up at the back of the cupboard with all the others!
 
I bought a salter hand model for 12.99 it is great I have veggetti every day
Courgettes, carrots, squash, beetroot, cucumber anything I think will work
 
@Shar67 Sincere question but don't the carrots, squash and beetroot do anything to your BS or does the insulin keep it under control?
 
Shar67 said:
I bought a salter hand model for 12.99 it is great I have veggetti every day
Courgettes, carrots, squash, beetroot, cucumber anything I think will work
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@Shar67 - Hi again - it's the difference between this...

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and this
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both work really well, but I'm just too bl**dy lazy. You ought to see the contents of my tool shed - it's like a "man-cave" version of the back of the kitchen cupboard where all the sandwich makers, slo-cookers etc. go to die. However, main thing is, we've both found a way of making food that works for us! So well done.
 
I loved my spiraliser.. Only the handrill model tho!
Now for ultra speed I just use a Julienne slicer. Quicker than getting the spiraliser out.
Trouble is courgettes have impact on my bloods..gggrrrr. Yearned longlingly whilst preparing courgette for hubby today..

They are delicious just fried in plain old butter with a milling of pepper at the end..... Ooh yum..
 
Deespee23 said:
@Shar67 Sincere question but don't the carrots, squash and beetroot do anything to your BS or does the insulin keep it under control?
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I don't eat beetroot but I do veggetti it, I'm a reluctant vegetarian, the insulin keeps bg in control, 3c cannot LCHF but do a medium version. I have more trouble with the weather than with food regarding bg, me and heat or cold don't seem to do well.
The back of the cupboard is like a currys kitchen section, the following are unused, George Forman grill family sized, 4 tier electric steamer, sandwich maker, kenwood food processor, electric food mixer, electric carving knife.
What I use, bamboo over pot steamer, veggetti cutter, hand julienne slicer, egg slicer (this is good for strawberries), hand blender, finger peeler oh and the one thing I have used for the past 20 years an electric tin opener, when I bought it my friend said it was rubbish and wouldn't last a year, had it for 20 odd year, though one thing I haven't told my friend, it rarely sees a tin as the only thing I buy tinned are beans, not baked ones and most come with a ring pull.
 
Deespee23 said:
(Sorry about double posting in the Low-carb forum - I treid to get a Mod to move this but I can't send PMs yet. I thought this place might be a more apprpriate home for it as there's a couple of recipes involved.....)

Hi all - first, let me say this is not an advert - just a vote of thanks from a very satisfied T2 person who's currently doing LCHF (with some success, I might add...).

I bought some spiralised courgettes from the Co-Op as I had never tried them. Cooked 'em up in a stir fry with some garlic, beansprouts, a little bit of onion, big dollop of Crucial Chili Sauce and some diced Boczek (pronounced bohcheck - it's Polish smoked pork - just like a big piece of smoked bacon - very fatty but lovely. You can get it at Morrison's or most of the big supermarkets or of course the freindly neighbourhood Polski Sklep) - it's not very dear at all. You could also use bacon if you like and it works with chicken as well.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, I was amazed at how good the courgette was in the stir fry - just like noodles. So amazed, in fact, that I went on the internet looking for spiralisers. The hand-operated ones all had somewhat dodgy reviews, then I came across the Morphy Richards 432020 - electric on Amazon. Not cheap at about £50, but by then my enthusiasm was getting the better of me. Duly ordered it and a day later it arrived. Door knocker went and I was presented with my parcel.

As expected, on going back into the house, I was greeted with the usual "oh god, what have you bought now" eyes rolling routine from the OH. Undaunted, I went into the kitchen, unpacked and washed it and set it up - all of 2 or 3 minutes work. First try, I used the "pasta" cutter which gives flatter strips rather than the sqaure section produced by the "julienne" cutter and used them in more-or-less the same recipe as before.

SUCCESS - even better, because the courgette was so fresh! Absolutely brilliant - even SWMBO was impressed! (to paraphase Nigel Farage - she wasn't laughing now!)

Since then I've used it for this Pizza recipe by Laura Agar Wilson. Worked a treat.

Ingredients
  1. 2 small or 1 and a half medium courgettes
  2. 1 medium egg
  3. 30g cheese, grated - I used mild organic cheddar
  4. 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning
  5. Toppings of choice – e,g. tomato paste, red onion, red pepper and feta cheese etc.
Instructions
  1. Grate the courgette and place in a bowl. Sprinkle with a little salt and leave for 10 minutes.
  2. Pre heat the oven to 220c. Place the courgette in a clean tea towel (or you can use your hands) and squeeze the liquid out.
  3. Put it back in the bowl, add the other ingredients and mix well.
  4. Line a baking sheet with some grease proof paper, or a fancy silicone baking sheet.
  5. Spread the mixture thinly into whatever shape you like, it should be about 3-4mm thick.
  6. Bake for 10 - 15 minutes until golden brown with crispy edges. Add you toppings and return to the oven until it's done how you like it. Eat!
Yes, it worked! I've also used the courgette noodles for the following, which is my own recipe:

Beef stir-fry with black pepper and cream sauce.

Ingredients
  1. 2 small or 1 and a half medium courgettes
  2. 8oz good quality steak
  3. If you like, about 10 small button mushrooms, thinly sliced
  4. 1 small onion
  5. Garlic to your taste
  6. 1 dsp black peppercorns - very coarsely crushed in mortar & pestle (so coarse that there might even be some uncrushed peppercorns)
  7. 1 small pot double cream
  8. 1 small pot soured cream
  9. Salt to taste
Instructions
  1. Spiralise the courgette and place in a bowl.
  2. Slice the steak very thin.
  3. Slice the onion and garlic, again very thinly.
  4. Mix 1 pot of double cream with 1/2 pot of sour cream and put to one side.
  5. Preferably in a heavy frying pan (you will see why later) heat some oil until it is quite hot and add the onion, garlic, mushrooms and peppercorns and cook until the onions are just going transparent.
  6. At this point, add the steak and cook until it is just done. No need to overdo it.
  7. Add salt to taste.
  8. Take the pan off the heat and put it on a trivet. Now add the cream and stir through the steak/onion/mushroom/pepper mixing thoroughly.
  9. DO NOT do this on the heat as the cream will curdle. The heat from the pan warms up the cream sauce.
  10. While all this is going on, fry the courgette noodles in another pan for 3-4 minutes (multi-tasking at its finest).
  11. When the noodles are done, plate them up and cover with the steak/cream mixture.
Don't know what you think of this, but it works for me! So thanks Morphy Richards for a gadget that works and definiteley won't end up at the back of the cupboard with all the others!
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@Deespee23 Thanks for this I try for dinner tomorrow sounds nice I'll let you know how I found it.
Thanks again. Steve. :) Squeekyboy
 
Thank you Deespee23 for that review. I'm. Not sure what the bgveffectsxwould be eating courgettes, but I love them and wanted to find an alternative to pasta and sphagetti. I've always used wholemeal but now know the high carb content. I'm tempted to get what you've bought if it is to be a good investment. Thank you :)
Wonder if there are cheaper brands though as I've spent a lot on informative diabetic books this week as recommended from folk on here, but it's all for my health so it's not money wasted.

Can you do other things with this machine?
 
Thanks for posting this. I used to love my pasta and have been reading recipes with butternut squash noodles (apparently available at all large supermarkets - not that I have ever seen them). I am tempted. The recipe I am drooling over is this http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/3976...-with-spinach--mushrooms---bacon.aspx?o_is=SR but I love stir fry now. Getting used to stir steam now.

One question why is it better than the Julienne disc on the food processor? The morphy Richards spirraliser is £35 at Dunelm but the reviews do not inspire confidence.
 
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