Moroccan Spaghetti (Very Low Fat and Healthy)
photo by Prose
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 311.84 g whole wheat spaghetti
- 1 red onion, chopped finely
- 3 garlic cloves, crushed
- 236.59 ml mushroom, sliced
- 793.78 g chopped tomatoes, from a can
- 9.85 ml cinnamon
- 9.85 ml ground cumin
- 4.92 ml turmeric
- 0.25 ml salt
- 0.25 ml black pepper
- 283.49 g chickpeas, from a can, drained and rinsed
- 177.44 ml fresh parsley, roughly chopped
- 177.44 ml fresh cilantro, roughly chopped
directions
- Put spaghetti in a large pot of boiling water and cook as long as the packet suggests. Mine takes 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, heat a non-stick pan and spray with low fat cooking spray.
- Add the onions, garlic and mushrooms and sautee until they start to get soft which was about 5 minutes for me. If they start to stick just put in a splash of water. This is a good way to 'fry' things without fat.
- Add the tomatoes, cinnamon, cumin, turmeric and salt and pepper and lightly simmer for about 8 minutes stirring frequently.
- Stir in the chickpeas and heat just long enough to cook through, about 3 minutes.
- Stir in the fresh herbs and just mix through until they start to wilt.
- Add in cooked spaghetti and stir to make sure all of the pasta is coated in the sauce.
- Serve.
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Reviews
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We liked this a lot. The sauce thickened in a nice way and all of the flavors worked together very nicely. I used green onion in place of red and added additional garlic, and served with some shredded parm. Adding the parsley and cilantro at the very end makes for a nice, bright color in the dish. We have been using a lot of whole wheat pasta for a while now and have never been bothered by it, so that part wasn't a problem. My only thing is that I never have success with spag (or other 'stringy' pasta) and chunkier sauces, so I just used penne instead, and everything mixed together nicely. Thanks for a different and tasty dish!
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Certainly a healthy meal and easy to make. I paired it with brown rice noodles, which I think went really well with this style of sauce. The spice combo wasn't quite right for me, maybe a little less of cinnamon and more of something else would have have done the trick, something was just a little lacking flavour wise. My children had it with feta cheese on top and thought it was pretty good, so maybe that's a good finishing touch. In any case, was a good recipe to try so thanks for posting! ZWT6.
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I LOVED it! I'm always looking for creative ways to add protein to spaghetti so this was perfect. When I added the spices, I was afraid they were going to be odd/overwhelming (I think the yellow color probably puts people off), but it was a lovely combination of flavors, and the cilantro was a nice touch. This was easy to make, tasty, healthy, and filling. I will definitely make it again. Thanks for posting!
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