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Zucchini Pesto Salad

June 24, 2014 by polishhousewife 4 Comments

zucchini pesto salad

For this recipe, I’m using raw zucchini as if it were pasta!

I have a recipe from Six O’Clock Scramble on my Summer Celebrations Pinterest board. With this in the back of my mind, we woke up late one morning, the result of a night out. After tea and coffee and checking our iPads to see what we’d missed while we’d been sleeping (the new equivalent of reading the morning newspaper), I remembered that we were out of our usual breakfast foods! 🙁

The one thing we did have was a couple of zucchini. It was late enough to call our meal brunch, so this is what we made. A veggie based, pasta-like salad, enough to keep us going until we made a trip to the supermarket. While not as fancy as Aviva’s on Six O’Clock Scramble; it was still very enjoyable! I think grated zucchini could be a great low-carb carrier for many of the sauces we usually put on pasta. I’m thinking about a red sauce next time.

I don’t have a tool for making julienne strips, so I simply peeled and grated the zucchini using the coarse side of my box grater. The grated squash went into a large strainer, sprinkled lightly with salt. After 5 minutes, I pressed the water out and tossed with some pumpkin seed pesto that I picked up at Market Hall Number 9 in Berlin. A grating of fresh Parmesan cheese and we were ready to eat. If I can find vegan pesto and substitute nutritional yeast for the Parmesan, I could make this for our vegan daughter.

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Filed Under: Gluten-free, Low Carb, Salads, Summer, Vegan, Vegetables Tagged With: pasta substitute, zucchini

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  1. Weronika

    June 24, 2014 at 7:36 am

    Sounds good, Lois! Have you ever seen vegan pesto in Poland? I cannot really find any without cheese.

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    • polishhousewife

      June 25, 2014 at 6:26 am

      I haven’t looked for it in Poland, Weronika, but I know I could buy it in the US. Can you buy nutritional yeast here? I would use that to make my own, just substituting (to taste) for the cheese in a pesto recipe.

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      • Weronika

        June 25, 2014 at 11:18 pm

        You can find nutritional yeast on polish websites and in some shops (maybe even in the one on Fredry street, they used to have it some time ago – or check in Vita Natura on Zeylanda street).

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        • polishhousewife

          June 26, 2014 at 12:57 am

          Thanks, that’s good news; it’s a great substitute for cheese, salty and sharp! 🙂

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