Carrot Noodles with Red Pepper Sauce

By Stanka Vukelić

 Photo: Stanka Vukelić

Carrot Noodles with Red Pepper Sauce

This raw red pepper sauce is delicious, healthy and super easy to make – just throw all the ingredients into a blender and it is good to go! It can be used as a sauce, a dip for veggies, chips/crackers, or as a salad dressing.

Shepherd peppers are not just sweet but also packed with vitamins and nutrients which seem to have nice side effects: increasing one’s libido and building collagen 😉 – so they say.

Just half a cup of sliced red pepper meets a quarter of the recommended adult daily dose of Vitamin A and almost the total recommended adult daily dose of Vitamin C, all for just 12 calories – and no fat or cholesterol. Red bell peppers are also high in carotenoids, which provide a healthy dose of fiber.

The noodles are made of carrots, but you can also use squash or zucchini. There are quite a few ways you can turn carrots into noodles. Some people use julienne peelers. You can also use an ordinary potato peeler.

The most popular tool with which to make vegetable noodles is a Vegetable Spiralizer (special spiral vegetable cutter). I’ve been using my mandolin. When using a mandolin, use the thickest blade setting possible.

Raw recipe: Carrot Noodles with Red Pepper Sauce

Preparation time: 15 min.

Ingredients for 2 people:

For spaghetti:

4-6 big-sized carrots (approx. 18 oz/500g)

For sauce:

6 tomatoes

6 red shepherd peppers

bunch of parsley

bunch of fresh basil (or as you like)

3 medium garlic cloves (or as you like)

1/2 teaspoon of sea salt

5 dates

2 red hot chili peppers (or as you like)

Methods/steps –

1. Slice carrots with a mandolin, use the thickest blade.

2. Put all ingredients for the sauce into a blender or food processor.

3. Process until well combined and creamy.

4. Serve. Yummy…

Extra Info on Carrots –

1. exceptionally rich source of carotenes and vitamin-A

2. help protect from skin, lung and oral cavity cancers

3. powerful natural anti-oxidant helps protect body from harmful oxygen-free radical injury

4. may help fight against cancers by destroying pre-cancerous cells

5. good in vitamin C

6. especially rich in many B-complex groups

7. compose healthy levels of minerals like copper, calcium, potassium, manganese and phosphorus

8. may provide you with protection against heart disease and stroke

9. helping you to build strong bones and a healthy nervous system

10. beta-carotene may restore vision

11. may offer memory improvement and cholesterol-lowering benefits

12. has anti-inflammatory properties

13. very good blood sugar regulator

More:

http://www.nutrition-and-you.com/carrots.html

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/12/28/carrot-health-benefits.aspx

http://juicing-for-health.com/basic-nutrition/healing-vegetables/health-benefits-of-carrot.html

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