Zucchini Pappardelle with Avocado Cream Sauce

This super healthy, yummy pasta dish looks gourmet, but takes only a few minutes to prepare.

Ingredients:

• 1 large zucchini
• 1 large yellow squash
• 1 avocado
• large handful fresh cilantro
• 1/2 cup nonfat greek yogurt
• 1 Tablespoon olive oil
• 1 clove garlic
• juice from one lime
• 1/2 c. hot vegetable stock
• Optional: basil, red pepper flakes, additional cilantro for garnish

Instructions for Noodles:

• Use a vegetable peeler to shave long wide strips from the zucchini and yellow squash. (Reserve the seedy center portion for another use.)
• Place the strips into boiling vegetable stock for 15 seconds.
• Drain well, but reserve the stock for the sauce.

Instructions for Sauce:

• Blend avocado and the next five ingredients in a food processor until smooth.
• Add stock to avocado mixture and blend well.

Put it altogether:

• Layer noodles onto plates. 
• Ladle sauce over noodels. 
• Top with basil, cilantro, and red pepper flakes.

Recipe & photo submitted by
AAY! member Szu-Hua W.