Spiralized courgette spaghetti with chickpeas is not only a low carb, low fat and healthy recipe but it's really easy to make too.
This spiralized courgette spaghetti with chickpeas dish is delicious!
Home-made rich tomato sauce combines the chickpeas together in a glorious fusion of natural flavours producing a great quick healthy meal for all the family.
And a really easy first time use of your new spiralizer!
Spiralized Courgette Spaghetti With Chickpeas - My First Spiralizer Recipe!
Spiralized courgette spaghetti with chickpeas is my first spiralizer recipe.
It’s definitely one I would recommend for those of us who are “spiralizer beginners”.
Yes, I got a spiralizer for Christmas! Since then I’ve been spiralizing everything in sight!
I had some spare tomato base (excluding the chilli) I'd made previously for my tomato and chickpea soup.
So I thought I'd trial that as a sauce here with some practice spiralized courgette spaghetti noodles.
I added the chickpeas for protein and the home-made tomato sauce has a fantastic natural sweet taste which went perfectly with the dish.
It turned out to be a combination of flavours that I just had to share as my very first spiralizer recipe.
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And check out a selection of courgette spaghetti recipes I've made since this recipe was published in the list below!
As well as being low calorie, low carb and low in fat, this recipe is an excellent source of dietary fibre providing nearly half of our daily recommended amount.
Spiralized Courgette Spaghetti Thoughts
Just how clever is google nowadays?
When I was trying to decide what to call this recipe, I wanted to get “zucchini” into the title as well as “courgette” so that my recipe would appeal to the whole international community.
I mean seriously why do we have two different names for the same vegetable anyway? Couldn’t we have just decided on one?
Anyway, I discovered it doesn’t matter if you google for “spiralized courgette spaghetti” as it brought up everything to do with “spiralized zucchini spaghetti” and vice versa. So that was fine.
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Spiralized Courgette Spaghetti With Chickpeas Recipe
Although I used spiralized courgette spaghetti with this recipe you could easily substitute with just about any other spiralized vegetables!
I’d love to hear what you think of my recipe in the comments below and please do rate my recipe 5* if you like it! 🙂
Spiralized Courgette Spaghetti with Chickpeas Recipe
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 small onion finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic crushed
- 4 ripe vine tomatoes chopped
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 400 g can chickpeas rinsed and drained
- 2 medium sized courgettes zucchini, about 350g. spiralized
- 1 tablespoon coriander freshly chopped
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a non stick frying pan and saute the onion and garlic for about 3 – 4 minutes until soft. Keep stirring so as not to burn.
- Add the chopped tomatoes, oregano and salt. Keep stirring and allow the tomatoes to simmer down to a liquid pulp for about 8 – 10 minutes.
- Blitz the tomato pulp in a food processor or with a stick blender until you have a thick creamy tomato sauce.
- Add the sauce back to the pan, re-heat it until it begins to bubble, then stir in the spiralized courgette and chickpeas.
- Heat through until warm and serve garnished with the freshly chopped coriander.
GiGi Eats
ONE OF MY FAVORITE things to do with my veggies - SPIRALIZE THE CRAP out of them! lol!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Absolutely GiGi! 🙂
And it's amazing what you can spiralize, not just veggies. You wouldn't believe what I've been spiralizing. That's why I mentioned that Lynne has to watch out! 😉
GiGi Eats
Spiralized GOAT?? lol
Susie @ SuzLyfe
You know that I am obsessed with zoodles, coodles, or whatever you want to call them. NOMS
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
We are both obsessed and we will no doubt end up in some house full of crazies where they keep all of the zoodle, noodle, coodle spiralized deviants! 😉
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Beaming with pride 🙂 And a fabulous first recipe to share on the blog! Spiralizer inauguration!!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Takes a bow 😀
Thank you!
And now for the other 100 I'm putting together 😆
Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy
We love our spiraliser too, but usually just top it with a simple tomato sauce. I am definitely throwing some chickpeas in there next time too!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
My spiralizer has become one of my most used kitchen gadgets! I've got your Greek Spaghetti with Roasted Tomatoes, Feta and Olives on my list! 🙂
Sarah
I love chickpeas and don't eat them enough - this would be a great use for my (forgotten) spiralizer!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Thanks Sarah. I just find chickpeas such a low cost versatile ingredient. They're so easy for chucking into any dish to add an extra bit of protein.
I hope you bring out that spiralizer again. Maybe I can persuade you to do that with some more yummy spiralizer recipes I've got coming in the future? 🙂
Shashi at RunninSrilankan
YAY for spiralized courgette / zucchini - to be honest, I had no idea they were the same thing!
Looking forward to seeing many more spiralized recipes on here, Neil - because this is a winner!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
I never actually knew that there were two different names for the same thing Shashi, until I started looking up recipes years ago!
And even then, I often thought because I couldn't get the thing you guys called "zucchini" here in the UK, I couldn't make certain recipes.
Until I found out they were the same thing. Doh! 😉