Food Friday: Quick and Easy Zucchini Noodles and Vermicelli

One of my favorite things to eat is zoodles. It is so easy to make them with the spiralizer.  They lighten up spaghetti tremendously, especially if you put in more zoodles than spaghetti noodles. 

When I was looking for some good vegetables at Shaw's (since we have been home I had already shopped at Price Chopper, Hannaford's, Wing's, and the Coop--I wanted one more time shopping in each place) I saw some beautiful firm YOUNG zucchinis.  I picked up four of them and resolved to make spaghetti for supper.  Slipping zoodles into a recipe like spaghetti can get some vegetables into resistant vegetable eaters!

Quick and Easy Zoodles and Vermicelli

Put a large pot of water on the stove to start boiling.

Spiralize four young zucchinis--about 6-7 inches long and 1 1/2 inches in diameter/thick. 

Heat a cast iron frying pan and place in it 1 Tablespoon olive oil.  When hot, add the zoodles and toss to cook. 

At the same time break up a pound of vermicelli into thirds if you are feeding young children.  It is hard for them to eat long noodles...and put them into the boiling water to cook.

Continue tossing and cooking the zucchini until you are happy with it.  I actually cooked it until the vermicelli was cooked because it did not take long.

Drain the vermicelli in a colander then put back into the pot. Add the cooked zoodles and a jar of Ragu spaghetti sauce.  (I said it was quick and easy...!) . Toss well and serve.

After I had eaten a tiny bowl, Son #3 told me he put some sea salt and Frank's Red Hot Sauce on his bowl. I had to try it.  I am very new to Frank's Red Hot Sauce, but may I say: it was fabulous.  I had several more tiny bowls, then had some more for breakfast today!  Yummy yummy.

The smallest grandchild insisted he could not eat zoodles.  When it was made a condition of receiving a bowl of a multi-berry sherbet for dessert he said, "Okay...", and began shoveling the spaghetti into his gullet.  And I mean shoveling!  He was done in three bites.  Because I am a mean grandma, and wanted to rub it in a little...so he would get the message that often things he thinks will be awful are not at all bad to eat, I asked him how it was.  He said, "It was kind of good."  Funny little creature.