Eat a low-sugar diet to lose weight, no more scratching your head over the menu! The American weight loss queen teaches you how to make Italian dishes with zucchini without cooking

I tend to make bad eating choices at dinnertime, when I'm trying to make dinner too late and have no idea what to prepare. Planning your meals is important, the more you plan, the easier it will be to make them. Eventually you'll have a library of recipes for your favorite meals that you're familiar with, and you'll have the ingredients handy so you can cook quickly and easily anytime, anywhere.

In this book, I provide a 30-day cooking plan to help you take the first step. Many of these meals can be directly swapped with other dishes. You just need to remember to avoid eating two high-sugar meals a day and drink at least 8 230CC glasses of water every day. If you want a snack, you can choose any meal or snack with a vegetable side dish from the recipes at the back of this book.

★Zoodles with basil pesto and sun-dried tomatoes

Makes 4 to 6 servings:

It’s also nice to occasionally prepare some meals that require no cooking at all. This delicious meal is refreshing and colorful. The preparation alone makes me happy, and eating it is even more enjoyable! However, you need a spiral cutter to make it. This is my favorite dish in this book. Simplicity is the key to healthy success.

Ingredients:

• ⅓ cup extra virgin olive oil.

• 1 cup fresh basil.

• ¼ cup pine nuts.

• 1 clove of garlic.

• 2 medium zucchini.

• ¼ cup chopped sun-dried tomatoes in olive oil.

• 2 tablespoons ground cashews.

• ¼ teaspoon sea salt.

• 1 pinch of black pepper.

practice:

1. Make the sauce by blending the oil, basil, pine nuts, and garlic in a high-speed processor until smooth.

2. Use a spiral cutter to cut the zucchini. I like thin slices, so I use a 0.2 cm wide blade.

3. Mix the zucchini noodles with the pesto sauce, then add the sun-dried tomatoes and cashews. Finally, season with salt and pepper.

Note:

This dish can add healthy fats and oils. The ground cashews taste like Parmesan cheese, soft, tender and a little salty. I originally wanted to make a cashew cheese spread, which also led me to the idea of ​​using ground cashews as a Parmesan cheese substitute.

This article is from the book "30 Days to Lose Sugar and Lose Weight Fast: 125 Recipes of the American Slim Queen, a Healthy Dining Plan to Lose 57kg in a Year" published by Creative Market