Over the weekend, we found a video of a vegan cooking challenge and one of the recipes was metabolic balance plan friendly so we decided to share it and omit the ingredients that would throw you off plan.

Ingredients:

• Butternut squash
• Mushrooms
• Olive oil
• Fresh basil
• Cherry tomatoes
• Plum tomatoes
• garlic

Instructions:

Place all the tomatoes and garlic on a roasting tray and drizzle a bit of olive oil over the pan Add salt and pepper and mix ingredients until covered with oil and seasoning.  Roast for approximately 30 minutes.

Remove the tomatoes from the oven and place half of the tomatoes into a bowl (without the garlic just tomatoes.) Blend.  Add porcini mushrooms and basil.  Blend ingredients until smooth.

Peel a butternut squash and split/slice it in the middle.  Remove seeds.  Cut halves into half and place the sections on a spiraliser.  Saute the “noodles” in a pan with a bit of olive oil.   Add the tomato sauce and mix until the noodles are softened.

Place the noodle mixture on a plate and add remaining tomatoes.  Add rye croutons if desired.

Note:  There is no protein in this meal. If you would like, you may add a nut, a meat or a favourite cheese from your plan.  Or, if you want to be very European, have a cheese with your fruit for dessert and skip the protein in the main meal.

The inspiration recipe can be found here.

PS.  Spiralizers look like this. If you do not have one, use a food processor or julienne peeler.