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Low Calorie healthy Pasta Dinner - Great for Weight Loss
Recipes | May 20, 2013
Dear Warriorz,
Since you’ve been putting so much effort lately into your training, I would like to share with you some great recipes as a reward 🙂 I am happy to see your progress and your before and after pictures. I think you guys are awesome and you are obviously working really hard to get where you want to be. I have been able to keep myself in great shape for the past 6 years with my workouts and one thing that I am noticing is that the food I eat, has been affecting me more since I turned 30. It obviously didn’t happen over night, but I can tell you that 4 years ago, my body was responding to things like pasta or pizza with more ease than it does nowadays 🙂 It’s well known that your metabolism naturally slows down after you turn 30 and it tents to decrease even more with each decade. While you can’t stop the aging process completely, you can slow it down by far with regular exercise and healthy and consistent diet.
All that said, we have to start focusing on our diet a little bit more, but we have to have fun with it just like we do with the workouts. I keep my workouts fun, short, and super effective. That has always been my thing. Now when it comes to food, I want my meals to be not only nutritious, but also really tasty and fun as well. The first one in my new series of Z-licious recipes is Healthy Low Calorie Pasta Dinner. Watch the video above for step by step instructions of how to prepare this meal and here is the recipe in a written form as well.
Ingredients
2 Summer Squash (one yellow, one green)
1/4 of a large onion
1/2 a can of Garbanzo Beans also known as chickpeas
about 1 medium size bowl of finely chopped fresh parsley
fresh lemon juice from 1/2 of lemon
2 cloves of garlic
2 tbls extra virgin olive oil.
Instructions
1. Create squash papperdelle with a peeler (mandoline slicer). Place on a plate and set aside for now.
2. Squeeze the lemon juice into the bowl with parsley.
3. Squish the garlic cloves into the parsley as well and mix it together. Add the chickpeas into the parsley and mix again. Set aside.
4. Chop the onion coarsely.
5. Heat up the olive oil and saute the onion in a medium sauce pan until it turns golden or light brown. Then add the squash papperdelle into the sauce pan as well and saute for another 2 minutes. The last step is to add the parsley mixture with chickpeas and saute for another 1 or 2 minutes. Salt for taste and if you want it to be really yummy, then add some parmesan cheese.
6. Keep the leftovers in refrigerator. You will have an awesome lunch tomorrow!
Let me know how did you enjoy this meal and share some of your recipes!!
Best,
Z.
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aha – another reason why I will like this is because of using the skin! I find that the skin of summer squash are far more flavorful and the fibery texture of them is more palatable. .. thus, your opening line of “and..don’t do EEhhh!!” ♪♫♫♪♫♪ hahahha..! ~ Cooking them with the skin could be one of the reasons others don’t like it either, so I’m eager to try this. ☺
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* I meant, “Cooking them withOUT the skin could be one of the reasons others don’t like it either, ..” ☺
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Summer Squash can be Zucchini or other early harvested (immature) squash. You harvest them while the rind is still soft and edible is the main difference I think. –Chris
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This was amazing. I didn’t have any parsley so I sub for Kale, and sub lemon for lime. I sub garlic powder for the garlic, I wish I had the clove, but it worked pretty well. I made a batch and wanted to save some for the following day,but it was so delish I ate the whole thing. Thanks Z, plz keep them coming!!!
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You look so healthy, happy and beautiful in the last photo of this post 🙂 Cannot wait to try this recipe and will be on the lookout for more! <3<3<3
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i never feel guilty for my pasta 😛 however this recipe looks delicious!
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Nummy!! Thank you for sharing. The carb scene really does me in. I look forward to giving this recipe a try.
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Just tried this tonight. It’s absolutely delicious!! I used white beans instead( not sure I can find chickpeas in my country). But it worked perfect))) all if your receipes that I’ve tried so far were perfect for my taste(your roasted cauliflower salad-I’ve already made it a hundred times and I still can’t get enough of it)))) thanks so much for sharing.
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Just tried this tonight. It’s absolutely delicious!! I used white beans instead( not sure I can find chickpeas in my country). But it worked perfect))) all if your receipes that I’ve tried so far were perfect for my taste(your roasted cauliflower salad-I’ve already made it a hundred times and I still can’t get enough of it)))) thanks so much for sharing.