Zucchini Alfredo
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Healthy, decadent, amazingly creamy AND low-carb. Finally, a guilt-less alfredo dish that the entire family can enjoy! 203.6 calories.
After this UBE stuffed hot glazed donut, I needed to go on a health binge.
I mean, I was ready to have about 100 of those. But after devouring that entire donut in 0.152545 seconds, I turned to this instead.
This creamy, buttery, garlicky, melt-in-your mouth alfredo sauce, loaded with freshly grated Parmesan. But don’t worry. It’s completely low carb with these zucchini noodles.
It’s pretty much an alfredo recipe that you can enjoy without worrying about calories – instead, you’ll be sneaking in all those veggies!
I will be honest though – it’s no UBE donut but it does come to a close second.
Zucchini Alfredo
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
- 1 pound 3 medium-sized zucchini, spiralized*
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ cups 2% milk, or more, as needed
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ¼ cup half and half*
- ¼ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
Instructions
- Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add zucchini and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender and heated through, about 3-5 minutes; set aside.
- Melt remaining 2 tablespoons butter in the saucepan. Add garlic, and cook, stirring frequently, until fragrant, about 1-2 minutes. Whisk in flour until lightly browned, about 1 minute.
- Gradually whisk in milk, thyme and oregano. Cook, whisking constantly, until incorporated, about 1-2 minutes. Stir in half and half and Parmesan until slightly thickened, about 1-2 minutes. If the mixture is too thick, add more milk as needed; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Stir in zucchini and gently toss to combine.
- Serve immediately, garnished with parsley, if desired.
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This looks delicious! I love regular fettuccine alfredo but it is so heavy. Using zoodles is a great way to lighten it up.
Zucchini noodles are fun. Alfredo sauce with zoodles? Yum. Though I have to say I’d do almost anything for an ube-stuffed donut.
Carrie, get off your broom woman. If a person is seriously into low-carb, they should know what adjustments they need to make to this recipe to eliminate the carbs. Of course, then it wouldn’t be a “low-carb carb” recipe as Carrie clearly indicated in the description. Lighten up woman. Instead of criticizing , try suggesting a change that would make it
no-carb for those who might be interested .
Well done, Carrie. Look forward to trying it.
Oh my gosh this looks so good! Girl, I am over here drooling over this dish right now. I am all over this! 🙂 I can’t even stop starring.
looks really good & someone gifted us with a spiralizer @ holiday time. We will be trying it very soon. Thank You
You can’t call this “low-carb” and use AP flour…..Do you even know the meaning of low-carb and what people on a low-carb diet usually eat or avoid? You could confuse people just starting out on a LC diet with that flour ingredient. The recipe is VERY misleading.
Carrie, this recipe specifically states that this is low-carb, not carbless. Does that make sense?
2 tbsp of flour and you are seriously going to bitch that this isn’t low carb..
Nice trolling.
2 tablespoons is pretty low-carb. Obviously your LC diet has been making you bitchy, feel bad for whoever has to be around you while dieting unless this is your everyday personality, which is even worse. I personally use almond flour to replace all purpose flour, but to each is own. This recipe sounds delicious, I will be making it this weekend thank you!
wow who is this rude and ignorant individual? The only thing that is misleading is wherever they learned your definition of “low carb”. I love this recipe! It’s like getting to eat the alfredo pasta without the actual pasta. Thank you!!
Replace the flour with Agar or Xanthan Gum and replace the milk/half & half with heavy whipping cream and stop your complaining.
She stated right away that she substituted almond flout for the AP flour.
Can’t wait to try this – but where does it say that she subs almond flour for the AP flour? Does the NI include the AP flour or the almond flour?
Get a grip it’s a recipe, if you don’t like it don’t eat it or change it to suit yourself, quit busting everybody’s chops
Sounds good! Where did the trans fats come from?
There are naturally occurring trans fats in dairy products. These ones are entirely different from the ones commercially produced – they have actually been shown to have a health benefit! Unfortunately, on labels, they all get lumped together. 🙁
Yum!! That calorie count makes my heart sing 😉
I am so excited to see this spiral recipe! I love alfredo sauce & this will be one of our dinner meals this week. I do have some leftover chunked chicken protein that I will add to your recipe! Thank you!