Cosmic Rhino

Mei, one of my CrossFit Long Beach friends, just made this and said it was delicious. I wanted to share with everyone now because I can tell it’s going to be amazing.

On the spiralizer, I am shopping for one now. Mei has this spiralizer and loves it. She also recommends the horizonal kind, not the vertical ones.

Ingredients

• 4 zucchini
• 2 handfuls basil (leaves removed from stems)
• 3 garlic cloves
• pinch sea salt (or any salt you have)
• juice of 1 lemon
• 3/4 cup olive oil
• handful of pine nuts, toasted (if desired)
• 4 cups cherry tomatoes, halved

Instructions

• Use a spiralizer to make zucchini linguine.
• Make the pesto in a blender, using the lemon juice and olive oil to help process to a wet paste (basil, garlic, salt).
• Mix the pesto with your spiralized zucchini.  Adorn with cherry tomatoes, pine nuts…whatever you fancy.

I’ll probably throw in some grass-fed ground beef or free-range ground turkey on top, seasoned with a mix of herbs and a pinch of sea salt. I can’t wait to make it myself.

Update: 08-12-2010. I got my spiralizer and love it. I want to spiral everything. Very easy. I would recommend for this recipe to saute the zucchini in olive oil for  3-5 minutes in a hot skillet, then add the pesto. The raw zucchini didn’t sound good to me.