Hi Tasty Alternative Readers!
I’m Lauren, and I write Empowered Sustenance, a blog filled with nourishing recipes for the SCD, GAPS diet, Paleo diet, and nut free diets. I am excited for this opportunity to share a healing recipe with you! Amber has been so encouraging and supportive ever since I started my blog, and it is an honor to guest post here.
Part of the challenge of a restricted diet is recreating nostalgic dishes with allowed ingredients. I enjoy this obstacle posed by the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. When reproducing an off-limits recipe, I follow a general outline (what I remember the dish to taste like) and express my creativity within that outline (using new ingredients or adding new flavors, for example). Oddly, I’m passionate about ballet for the same reason: I have room for artistic interpretation within the confines of proper technique.
This faux-pasta recipe started with a memory of a favorite family dinner. My mom used to toss Tinkyada brown rice pasta with mashed roasted garlic, salt, and olive oil. Our family heaped this side dish next to pork chops and sauteed apples. In my grain free translation, I’ve doused zucchini pasta with a creamy, dairy free roasted garlic sauce. The mellow sweetness from the smoked apple sausage gives a nod to the apple and pork chop combo.
Those on grain free diets usually sing the praises of versatile zucchini. I love how easily this bland veggie transforms into al dente pasta. I use a julienne peeler to cut my zucchini into strips.
Trader Joe’s offers a SCD and GAPS diet friendly sausage. Substitute any other sugar and grain free natural sausage.
I used Trader Joe’s Smoked Apple Chardonnay Chicken Sausage here. This is a great convenience food option for the SCD and GAPS diet. The ingredients are: chicken, apples, salt, celery, white pepper, nutmeg, thyme, ginger, chardonnay, rosemary, natural pork casing. I always remove the casing from this sausage, because it is tough and chewy.
I used Trader Joe’s Smoked Apple Chardonnay Chicken Sausage here. This is a great convenience food option for the SCD and GAPS diet. The ingredients are: chicken, apples, salt, celery, white pepper, nutmeg, thyme, ginger, chardonnay, rosemary, natural pork casing. I always remove the casing from this sausage, because it is tough and chewy.
Zucchini Pasta with Sausage and Roasted Garlic Sauce
For 2 servings, double as needed
-2 all natural, sugar free, fully cooked sausage (I used Trader Joe’s Smoked Apple Chardonnay Chicken Sausage)
-2 Tbs. butter or olive oil
-2 small zucchini, cut into pasta
-2 Tbs. roasted garlic
-1/4 cup homemade 24-hour yogurt or additive-free coconut milk
-Salt, to taste
How To:
Bring a small pot of water to a boil. Heat the butter (or olive oil) in a small sauté pan over medium heat. Remove the casing from the sausage if desired (it usually peels off easily when the sausage is cold). Slice the sausage and brown in the butter/olive oil.
While sausage is browning, add the zucchini pasta to the boiling water. Cook for 1 minute to soften, then drain. Remove the sausage from the sauté pan and set aside. Stir the roasted garlic and yogurt/coconut milk into the remaining butter in the pan. Warm through, and season the sauce lightly with salt. Top the sausage pieces and pasta with the warm sauce.
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Thanks again for this opportunity, and for all your support as I’ve started my blog!
Have a great rest of the week!
Amber, thanks so much for the opportunity to guest post! I hope your readers enjoy the recipe!
Yum! Lauren your pictures look great 😉
Yum. I love zucchini pasta but I haven’t tried it this way. Thanks for sharing.
I made this last night, yummy!!! I didn’t have any canned coconut milk or yogurt. So, I added some SoDelicious coconut creamer instead. Love the pictures!!! that’s what got me hooked… 🙂
[…] 1. Bring a small pot of water to a boil. Heat the butter (or olive oil) in a small sauté pan over medium heat. 2. Remove the casing from the sausage if desired (it usually peels off easily when the sausage is cold). 3. Slice the sausage and brown in the butter/olive oil. 4. While sausage is browning, add the zucchini pasta to the boiling water. Cook for 1 minute to soften, then drain. 5. Remove the sausage from the sauté pan and set aside. 6. Stir the roasted garlic and yogurt/coconut milk into the remaining butter in the pan. Warm through, and season the sauce lightly with salt. 7. Top the sausage pieces and pasta with the warm sauce. Reference: Thetastyalternative.com […]