About three years ago if you had asked me to cook you something I would have thrown piece of chicken in the oven with some salt and pepper and olive oil and baked it. I hated cooking and wasn't very good at it. After I got married I started experimenting with cooking by following simple recipes, I started to enjoy watching my husband's face light up and gauged a recipe by how many MMMMM's I got from my husband. It just began to evolve from there........

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Zucchini Spaghetti with Polenta

yeah so about that new found love of Polenta, well as Sandra Lee would say......This is my round 2 recipe. My sister and her husband made this dish for us a few weeks ago, The concept of the Zucchini spaghetti was from...drum roll.....Food Network Magazine..see a patter here folks, I heart that magazine if you couldn't tell.  They made it vegetarian but I used left over chicken sausage from last night dinner. The concept is so simple and very healthy for you.  The zucchini takes the place of the pasta, and I promise you won't miss the pasta!

Ingredients Round two style...
4 oz of remaining hot Italian chicken sausage
1 jar organic roasted garlic spaghetti sauce( any sauce will do)                           
3 garlic cloves
left over polenta, cut into 1 inch slices
2 medium zucchini's, raw
2 medium summer squash, raw
1 Tbsp Extra Virgin olive oil
1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese

Directions:
1. Slice zucchini and squash in thin pieces, using a mandolin slicer (use the guard people! I know this from a very painful experience) and then cut into thin spaghetti like slices.  place in a colander and sprinkle 3/4 tbsp salt, toss well and let sit for 30 minutes. The salt will limp your "pasta" into soft "noodles".

2. In a sauce pan cook sausage until brown and add spaghetti sauce, i crushed three garlic cloves in with the sauce, we just love garlic! (This is optional) cooked until well heated

3. Heat olive oil in a pan and cooked polenta slices until soft and crispy, Next time I am going to cut down on the Olive oil to try to get more of a crisp to the polenta.

4. Place 1-2 polenta slices on a plate then add you "pasta" and sauce on top. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
I was able to get about 5 servings from this.

Weight watchers points 4...that's pretty awesome for a dinner!

Make this totally vegetarian or add your favorite meat(just remember that changes the point value for all you fellow weight watcher pals out there)

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