How to cook zucchini noodles- showing you an easy 5-minute method for cooking zucchini noodles, plus how to make them ahead and store for meal prep.
Vegetable noodles are one of my favorite ways to introduce new vegetable textures into recipes, and zucchini noodles are one of my favorites for many reason.
Not only are zucchinis pretty easy to spiralize but zucchini noodles are surprisingly similar to pasta in texture. We like mixing zucchini noodles in 50/50 with whole wheat spaghetti and it is a great way to ‘sneak’ extra veggies in without really noticing.
Today we are talking how to cook zucchini noodles, plus how to make them ahead and store for meal prep!
Reasons to love zucchini noodles:
- they blend into spaghetti dishes, sneaking in extra veggies
- they are low carb and calorie and perfect for lightening up heavy dishes
- they keep well for meal prep when stored properly
