Zucchini Noodles

Healthy Zucchini Noodles (“Zoodles”) – fresh zucchini are cutting into spaghetti-like strands, tossed amongst olive petroleum together with roasted inwards the oven until tender. Finish with your favorite sauce for the perfect summery chief dish!

Zucchini Noodles shown topped with a beefy spaghetti sauce.

Baked Zucchini Noodles

While there are several ways to make zucchini noodles, I intend oven baking is easily the best manner to become.

The other options are boiling as well as sauteing simply they each have a downside. Boiling will mute the flavor summation they’ll stop upwardly watery. And alongside sauteing they don’t ready every bit evenly.

The swell thing hither is cooking them inwards the oven is about as tardily equally it gets! You don’t accept to toss constantly, y'all don’t have to tend to them super closely, and it volition become a large quantity cooked at once.

It’s a straightforward method that consistently yields nifty results. And it’s an first-class manner to function up an abundance of zucchini too agree more than veggies into your diet.

Sauces to Serve with Zoodles

Beefy Spaghetti Sauce (store-bought or homemade)

Marinara

Alfredo Sauce (lighten up alongside more milk, less cream, together with a petty less butter if desired. Thicken amongst an extra one/two Tbsp flour).

Basil Pesto

Vodka Sauce

Peanut Sauce

Sesame Sauce

Close up photo of zucchini noodles.

Ingredients You’ll Need to Make Zucchini Noodles

3 lbs. medium zucchini, ends trimmed (preferably nearly viii oz. inward size each)

ane Tbsp olive oil

Salt too freshly earth dark pepper

Tools Needed

A zucchini noodle maker, A.1000.A. a spiralizer. I take this i HERE.

A rimmed eighteen by 13-inch baking sail.

Image of ingredients used to make zucchini noodles. Includes fresh zucchini, olive oil, salt and pepper.

Collage of four photos showing process of making zucchini noodles.

How to Make Zucchini Noodles

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray a rimmed eighteen past xiii-inch baking sheet amongst non-stick cooking spray.

Set a spiralizer amongst a blade that has close to 1/eight-inch wide holes. Cut the zucchini into noodles according to manufacturers directions (per spiralizer).

If shorter noodles are desired then cutting noodles into lengths about 12-inches long using kitchen shears (this pace tin can live skipped, noodles are merely very long otherwise).

How to Cook Zucchini Noodles

Transfer zucchini noodles to prepared baking canvas. Drizzle with olive petroleum, flavor alongside salt and pepper to gustation together with toss well to evenly coat.

Spread noodles even.

Bake inwards eye of the oven until noodles have reached desired tenderness, well-nigh 12 to 18 minutes.*

Depending on what you lot are serving over them, yous may desire to drain inwards a colander to withdraw excess liquid or carefully dab dry out with newspaper towels. In a rush you lot tin can but function tongs to take them from pan too get out behind excess liquid.

Plain cooked zucchini noodles shown in a wooden bowl on a white marble surface.

Can they live made without a spiralizer?

Yes. Zucchini noodles can besides be made amongst a mandoline, a julienne peeler or a box grater, BUT the quickest about efficient style is past using a spiralizer, specially when working amongst this quantity.

You tin endeavour those methods if yous entirely call for one serving. Keep inwards listen bake time will decrease as well.

Can zoodles live frozen?

Yes. Zoodles tin be frozen for upwards to three months inwards an airtight container.

Thaw inward the refrigerator overnight as well as reheat inward the microwave.

Roasted zoodles shown on a baking sheet from a side angle.

Helpful Tips

Use medium zucchini for best results.

Avoid extra big zucchini with tough skins or likewise many seeds.

Also, I don’t recommend small-scale zucchini equally they don’t shred inward the spiralizer likewise (if it has a corer anyway, you’ll finish upwards with lots of actually brusque noodles).

I like to function zucchini that are straighter through the length. If needed yous tin cutting those that are crooked inward one-half so they run through the the spiralizer better.

Keep inward listen when topping with various sauces that you lot don’t go the starches that unremarkably thicken that are plant inward a semolina style pasta. Therefore, you lot may want to make sauces a lilliputian thicker amongst more or less cornstarch or flour or simmer further to trim back juices.

Variations

Bake amongst red tomatoes (tossed amongst olive petroleum) over the peak. Finish amongst cooked bacon, if desired.

Toss in cooked shrimp (or bake alongside olive crude oil coated shrimp on height then take them before if needed).

Add minced garlic.

Serve amongst more than olive fossil oil, shredded parmesan too a piffling fresh lemon juice.

Try cut zucchini noodles into unlike shapes depending on the spiralizer blades y'all have (suit bake times accordingly). Or endeavour cut into sheets with a mandoline to brand zucchini lasagna.

Zoodles tossed with alfredo sauce, shown served in a blue pasta bowl.

More Recipes to Make amongst Zucchini

Baked Zucchini (alongside Parmesan!)

Lasagna Zucchini Boats

Stuffed Zucchini Boats (amongst Sausage)

Zucchini Bread

Zucchini Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

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