Spiralized Zucchini Noodles With Roasted Eggplant Sauce and Crispy Bacon
What's for dinner tonight? It's zoodles aka zucchini noodles again! See I told you I was an addict! Luckily my hubby likes them too, 'cause we eat them a lot. Cooked or raw!
Ingredients (serves 2)
- 4-6 slices of bacon, coppa or prosciutto (we used bacon)
- 2 big zucchini, spiralized
- 1 big eggplant
- 5 tomatoes, halved
- 8 cloves of garlic, skin on and lightly crushed.
- 3/4-1 cup onion, chopped
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- ½-1 cup freshly chopped parsley
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 400°F or 200°C.
- Cut eggplant in half lengthwise.Score the flesh with a sharp knife. Cut deep into the flesh making a diamond pattern. Do not cut through the skin. Add tomatoes and garlic to the baking sheet, drizzle with a little oil and roast until softened and browned.
When eggplant is ready, push garlic out of the skin and add to a blender together with the tomatoes, and eggplant. Mix well. Add a little water if needed. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Meanwhile, spiralize zucchini. Set aside.
- Place a large skillet over medium heat and coat with cooking spray. Lay in the bacon slices and cook for 3-5 minutes or until crispy (depending on the thickness of your bacon). Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate and set aside.
- In large pan or pot, heat cooking oil over medium heat. Saute onion for a few minutes or until softened.
- Add spiralized zucchini noodles and cook, frequently tossing, for about 3-5 minutes or until zucchini noodles are al dente.
- When ready, add tomato-eggplant sauce and cook until heated through. Last minute add crumbled or chopped crispy bacon. Stir well to combine. Taste, add salt and pepper if needed.
- When ready, garnish with fresh parsley and serve.
Recipe notes
If you don't have a spiralizer, you could use a vegetable peeler or julienne peeler too. Hold the sweet potato down on a flat surface and slide from top to bottom to make noodles or ribbons. A vegetable peeler will make flat fettuccini-like strands/ribbons while a spiralizer (or julienne peeler) will make spaghetti-like strands. We used a spiralizer for this recipe.
Click here for more info on how to spiralize veggies.
Enjoy your meal! Until next time!
beautiful post, I am adding this to my to-do list!
I hope you'll love it too!
Great recipe. I will try it cook.
Enjoy ;-)
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Love the spiralized zucchini with bacon!! That must be very tasty!! I definetely should buy a spiralizer!
One of my most valuable kitchen tools. However, a julienne peeler works too. Used it for quite a while before I bought a hand spiralizer. (if you are interested, here's an article on my website I once wrote about the different ways to spiralize veggies: http://www.body-in-balance.org/blog/nutrition/spiralized-vegetables/)
Thank you so much! Nice article. I already have seen one like yours, but wasn't sure if it was good. Your opinion on this is great!! 😄