How not to give up a pasta dish even when the low-carb diet asks us to stay away from pasta. The tastiest ideas for a good and light summer
Dieting is stressful for many reasons: organization and deprivation turn every meal into a real challenge. Here we are counting calories, writing menus on the calendar and closing everything we can't eat in the pantry. "Better not look," we say as we move away from our eyes and hearts biscuits, tarallini, chips, puddings, chocolate bars, snacks and even pasta. Are you sure you can do without it?
We do not. Despite the strict diet we are unable to deprive ourselves of a good dish of spaghetti with tomato sauce, perhaps perfumed with some basil leaves. And since eating them every day could put all the efforts made so far into play, we found the idea of summer light: eggplant pasta!
Like spaghettoni
To use aubergines instead of pasta, we decided to use them as if they were big spaghetti to season. To make them, the first operation to do is to cut the aubergines vertically and proceed to cut them into thin strips.
At this point it will be possible to put them in a colander that we will use to dry them with a bit of salt and remove the excess.
How to cook them
Once softened, the aubergines are ready to be cooked. If you are tempted to parboil them as you do with pasta, stop: they would absorb too much water, swelling up like real sponges. Better to sauté in a pan with a few minutes with very little oil and a pinch of salt. Stop before reaching the gilding phase and choose the condiment that you like best.
Our idea
Given the great heat and the desire to remain light, we advise you to choose light and fresh condiments so as not to weigh down this dietetic dish. We opted for cherry tomatoes and prawn tails, but feel free to create. Eggplant noodles are in fact good also simply served with olives, capers and cherry tomatoes, but they also lend themselves to being seasoned with fresh vegetables, anchovies and flakes of pecorino!
The alternative
This technique is so beautiful that we can't stop there. Try preparing delicious vegetable noodles with zucchini, carrots and beets. They will also be delicious simply seasoned with garlic, oil and chilli.
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