Spiralize Zucchini Noodles with Homemade Sauce!

For my birthday this year my sister bought me a Spiralizer.  I haven't actually seen one until I took it out of the gift bag and wondered what it was!  I absolutely love zucchini noodles and this made it so easy! This recipe is clean, easy and super yummy.  I make the sauce in advance in large batches and freeze it for individual meals, so then all I need to do is spiralize and sauté my noodles and heat up the sauce.  Now, if I could only get my boys to eat them!  One can only hope that as they watch their mommy making healthy choices and getting fit they will eventually do the same!


Zucchini Noodles & Homemade Meat Sauce
(Serves 4)

6 Large Zucchini's
1lb of Grass Fed Ground Beef
(you can substitute ground turkey/chicken whichever is your preference)
1 Package of Mixed Mushrooms
(pick your mushroom preference, I like the oyster, shiitake mix)
1/2 Yellow Onion sliced
2 Cans of Muir Glen Organic Crushed Tomatoes with Basil

Meat Sauce

Saute the mushrooms and onions for 2 minutes in a deep pan, then add the ground beef and mix until cooked.  Drain the fat and put the mixture back into the pan.

Add the (2) cans of crushed tomatoes and allow to simmer for approximately 45 minutes to mix the flavors together.

Remove from heat and serve with zucchini noodles and/or freeze.

Zucchini Noodles

Remove the green skin on the zucchini with a vegetable peeler.  You can either put on the spiralizer to create the noodles if you have this tool, but if not, you can continue to peel the zucchini with the vegetable peeler and put them into the pan.  This is what I did prior to having the spiralizer!

Add a teaspoon of either olive oil or coconut oil, whichever is your preference and sauté until cooked.  I drain the excess water and then serve with sauce.

Enjoy!