393. While cutting back on bread intake, I'm adjusting and adapting recipes. As the saying goes, "Necessity is the mother of invention", and it was necessary to find a replacement for pasta.
So with all the recipes using squash as a replacement, I wanted to spiralize but due to this quarantine in place, I can't go to the store. So, how to create noodles from zucchini?
The idea to use my hand lemon zester came to mind...and it was genius! Because the zucchini is softer squash, I had to be careful to go slowly with gentle pressure to make long strips.
I sautéd a quarter of a red onion in a pat of butter, then added the zucchini just to heat it up but not to cook it because the noodles would wilt.
I then heated up a bit of pesto recipe here, and pan seared salmon.
I plated the gently warmed zucchini, spooned pesto over the noodles and then place the seared salmon and topped with pesto. I don't have to say how flavorful and the textures were so very similar to pasta noodles.
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The recipe is so delightful, light and satisfying.
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
~Anonymous
The author of this proverb is unknown. It is commonly misattributed to Plato to Benjamin Jowett's popular idiomatic 1871 translation of Plato's Republic, where in Book II, 369c, his translation reads: "The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention."
