This roasted leek and tomato sauce over zucchini pasta is such a warm, comforting and hearty meal while being super healthy, gluten-free and 100% plant based. Roasting the vegetables together really blends the flavours and enhances the taste. This sauce can be used on any type of pasta, but zucchini pasta is so delicious, try it!
To make this delicious dish, you first roast all your veggies in the oven to prepare the sauce. While the sauce is baking, you can make your zucchini noodles in just a few minutes!
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Zucchini Noodles
Making zucchini noodles is very simple. It only takes 3 minutes to make and you only need 1 ingredient: a fresh zucchini. You simply need to secure the zucchini on a spiralizer and turn the handle – the machine will do the rest. If you don’t have a spiralizer, you can make noodles with a julienne grater or thicker noodles with a vegetable peeler.
I like to heat the zucchini noodles briefly in a skillet over medium heat before serving, for no more than 3-5 minutes.
- 6 ripe tomatoes, diced
- 2 leeks, thinly sliced
- 1 yellow bell pepper, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon grape seed oil
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 zucchini (prepared as pasta, see below)
- Fresh chives (optional, for garnish)
- In a skillet over medium heat, brown leeks into grape seed oil. Season with herbs, salt and pepper.
- While the leeks are cooking, prepare tomatoes, bell pepper and garlic and place them in a baking dish.
- Once the leeks are soft, mix them with the other vegetables in the baking dish.
- Roast in the oven at 400 degrees F for 30 minutes, mixing halfway through to blend all the flavours.
- Serve warm over zucchini pasta and garnish with fresh chives.
Reblogged this on Sweetness in Bloom and commented:
I will give it a try very soon. Looks delicious!
Thanks, let me know how it turns out
I will
I wonder if any of the kitchen aid mixer attachments I have allow me to do the noodles. I want to make them this week. YUM!
Hi Paula – Perhaps the slicer/shredder Kitchen Aid attachment would work. Let me know if you do it with the Kitchen Aid! Otherwise you can always borrow my spiralizer
Yum – fantastic!! Made this too, but didn’t have a spiraler and had to use another kitchen tool – but love these! So good. Love your photos!! Makes de dish look absolutely wonderful!
A spiralizer is pretty fun to use, but it is definitely as delicious to make the zucchini noodles with a vegetable peeler or a julienne grater