My mom always made a great bolognese, and it has long been one of my favorite pasta dishes. It being the 2nd to last night of the 21 Day Sugar Detox, I thought it would be fun to try and make a great paleo bolognese ‘pasta’ dish using zucchini noodles instead of regular pasta or even spaghetti squash (just to add some variety in there).
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Zucchini 'Pasta' Bolognese
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Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 3 whole zucchinis cut into 'noodles' with a julienne peeler
- 1 can diced tomatoes
- 1/2 can tomato paste
- 1 large yellow onion, grated
- 1 cup red wine
- 1 cup beef broth
- 1lb grass fed ground beef
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 tbs dried oregano
- 3 tbs coconut milk
- 1 tbs of coconut aminos
- 1 handful of fresh basil roughly chopped
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 tbs grass fed butter
Instructions
- Add olive oil/coconut oil to a large saucepan and turn on to medium heat.
- When the pan is nice and hot, add grated onion and sweat out some of the moisture.
- While the onion is sweating, season with salt and pepper. Add dried oregano and stir into the onion mixture.
- Add crushed garlic, sweat and mix into onion.
- Add ground beef and lightly brown, stirring constantly.
- When meat is lightly browned, add tomato paste in the center of the pan and sweat for 2 minutes then fold into beef mixture.
- Stir in red wine and let reduce to a syrup.
- Once wine is fully reduced, add in diced tomatoes, beef stock and coconut aminos.
- Stir in coconut milk and let sauce simmer for about 5 minutes.
- Stir fresh basil into sauce and simmer another 2-3 minutes.
- Serve sauce over zucchini noodles and enjoy!
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