Zucchini Pizzaiola is an easy low carb meal. The scrumptious Italian zucchini noodles are bathed in a low carb pasta sauce and topped with gooey mozzarella. Yellow zucchini gives the appearance of regular pasta.
I have become a zucchini noodle addict over the past few months, and zucchini pizzaiola is one of my very favorite ways to make with them. It is such an easy recipe, and doesn't even require boiling water. I typically use fresh mid-sized green zucchini, but got my hands on some lovely organic yellow ones this week. I think the results look more "noodley", don't you?
Sometimes I add cheese to my Zucchini Pizzaiola, and sometimes I don't. It mostly depends on what I have on-hand, how hungry I am and if the zucchini noodles (otherwise known as zoodles), are an entree vs a snack or side. Either way, they make for a satisfying low carb dish.
I use one of the tabletop spiralizers to make my zucchini noodles, but started with a small hand twist spiralizer. The hand twist ones can be widely found at reasonable cost.
Yellow Zucchini Pizzaiola with Fresh Mozzarella
Ingredients
- 1 zucchini squash large yellow
- ¼ cup pizza sauce organic
- ½ teaspoon garlic chili sauce
- 2 slices fresh mozzarella cheese chopped into bite sized pieces
Instructions
- Twist the zucchini through a spiralizer to create your noodles.
- Put the zucchini noodles in a skillet over medium high heat. Top with pizza sauce and chili sauce mix in pan. (it may not seem like enough sauce, but liquid will come out of the zucchini squash)
- As soon as the sauce starts bubbling and squash starts to wilt reduce heat to low-med and allow to simmer until squash is tender but not mushy (it will only take a few minutes).
- Add the mozzarella, and gently toss. Once the cheese has started to melt, shut off burner, and pour the noodles into bowl to serve.
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Lisa says
Wow, this looks really good. I have never had 'pasta' made from zucchini. I'll have to try this soon.
harriet says
I need to try that with zucchini. I have some growing in my garden right now.
Mistee Dawn says
Yum! This looks so good! I love cooking with zucchini and I will definitely have to try this!
Amy says
Wow, I had to look twice at this recipe! I had no idea it was made with zucchini and not regular pasta.
Jenn K says
I have only seen these in green squash before. I like the yellow better. It really looks like pasta.