14 creative spiralizer recipes that will take you beyond zucchini noodles! Check out these delicious, healthier recipes using cucumber noodles, sweet potato noodles, butternut squash noodles and more.
If you are looking to add more veggies to your dinner without much effort, I highly recommend using a spiralizer!
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Reasons you'll love using a spiralizer
- it creates new textures to add to your salads, curries and stir fries
- they can help to limit your carb intake without feeling like you're missing out- you can mix them with pasta and barely notice them there!
- they help you squeeze more vegetables into your diet
- they're fun to make and to eat!
How to use a spiralizer
Select the appropriate blade for the vegetable you are spiralizing- for zucchini noodles, we use the small (โ inch) spaced blade on your spiralizer, whereas for sweet potato noodles, we use the larger (ยผ inch) spaced blade. You can also create ribbons.
- Pick a large, straight vegetable, wash, dry, and trim the ends (slice them off evenly). Try to avoid curved veggies as they are difficult to spiralize.
- Depending on the vegetable, you may wish to cut them in half as well.
- Place one end of the vegetable in the middle of the spiky paddle on the spiralizer, and the other end in the middle of the coring circle.
- Rotate the handle, applying gentle pressure to create vegetable noodles.
What kind of vegetables can you spiralize?
- zucchini
- carrots (particularly jumbo carrots are good to spiralize)
- sweet potatoes
- butternut squash
- daikon
- bell peppers
- beets
- cabbage
- red onion
- cucumber
- parsnip
- apple
And more!
Teg says
I've only dine teriyaki and soy sauce stir fry so far, but looking forward to trying some of these! Just wish they had calorie counts too!
Denise says
Most of the recipes on Sweet Peas & Saffron have nutritional estimates but I can't control what other bloggers do on their sites. Glad you enjoyed it! I might have to give it a try ๐
Ben says
Love all of these!
Jodi says
What spiralizer do you recommend?
Denise says
Hi Jodi! I use the Paderno Tri Blade: http://amzn.to/2sky8Jd (affiliate link), and love it! Easy to use and to clean!
Jenn @ Peas and Crayons says
These are fantabulous! Loving the chickpea sweet potato noodle soup! Thanks so much for including me ๐
Denise says
Thanks, Jenn! I want to try your soup recipe, looks DELISH!
Kelly says
Yay, love all these spiralizer recipes! Adding so many to my lunch and dinner menu, they all look amazing! Thank you so much including mine too! <3
marcie says
I love this round-up, Denise -- I'm pinning it and bunches of individual recipes too! Thanks so much for including my Thai cucumber carrot salad!
Linda @ 2 Cookin' Mamas says
Great collection of recipes! Can't wait to try each and every one of them.
lindsay Cotter says
As if i don't use my spiralizer enough. I LOVE ALL THESE!! PInning. xxoo