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You are here: Home / Recipes (all gluten & grain free) / 30 Day Wellness Challenge / Bacon zoodles & crispy sweet potato

Bacon zoodles & crispy sweet potato

February 8, 2016 by whatannabelcooks Leave a Comment

Bacon zoodles & crispy sweet potato is a super simple, flexible, & tasty dish that could easily be a meal in it’s own right, a satisfying side and makes great leftovers for lunch the next day.

bacon zoodles crispy sweet potato

If you haven’t heard of zoodles yet, you’re missing out!  They are simply noodles made out of zucchini.  Zoodles can be eaten raw (in a salad) or cooked quickly (usually just pan fried), served on their own, as a base for a ‘pasta’ sauce or as a substantial side or mini-meal like in this recipe.  You can make them with a couple of different kitchen gadgets.  The simplest is this julienne peeler but if doing bulk you might find it quicker to use a sprialiser (like this one).

green julienne peeler

Cooking bacon zoodles is as simple as cooking some diced bacon and the tossing the zoodles into the pan so they absorb some of the yumminess of the bacon!

Bacon zoodles & crispy sweet potato
 
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Prep time
5 mins
Cook time
10 mins
Total time
15 mins
 
Author: Annabel
Ingredients
  • 1 zucchini per person
  • ½-1 rasher of bacon per person
  • ½ sweet potato per person
  • 1 Tbsp pesto of your choice
  • ½ sweet potato per person
  • extra oil for cooking - macadamia oil or coconut oil
  • S&P to taste
Directions
  1. If you want to use 1 pan, make the crispy sweet potato first then keep it warm.
  2. If you want to use 2 pans, begin the sweet potato first and make the zoodles after a minute or 2 as the zoodles take less time to cook.
  3. For the zoodles: dice bacon and pan fry then when crispy (pull out a few bits to put on the top), add the zoodles and a little extra oil and toss until cooked but not soggy (only a few minutes). Stir in about 1 tablespoon of pesto per person into the zoodles.
  4. For the crispy sweet potato: turn the sweet potato into noodles using the julienne peeler or spiralizer. If you don't have either, just use your vegetable peeler and peel strips of sweet potato. Then toss in a hot pan with oil of your choice. Stiring regularly so the crisp up but don't burn. Depending on the size of your pan, you can really only pan fry up to 1 sweet potato at a time or there will be too much in the pan and it will turn to mush! (see below)
  5. To assemble: place the zoodles on the plate, top with crispy sweet potato, sprinkle with extra bacon if you wish and even some finely chopped herbs on top would be yummy too.
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Here is the link to my most recent pesto recipe – made with celery leaves (to avoid wasting them!).

celery leaf pesto

This is a good amount of sweet potato in my pan (1 sweet potato):

sweet potato noodles

 

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Filed Under: 30 Day Wellness Challenge, Paleo Recipes, Recipes (all gluten & grain free), Vegetables & Side dishes Tagged With: bacon, bacon zoodles, celery leaf pesto, gluten free pasta, grain free pasta, mid week dinners, paleo, paleo pasta, pesto, sides, simplicious, what annabel cooks, whatannabelcooks, zoodles, zucchini noodles

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