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My friend Polly turned me onto the Veggetti spiralizer. It’s this super inexpensive gadget that turns vegetables like carrots, zucchini, and squash into spaghetti-shaped noodles. It looks like a pencil sharpener and it is so easy to use.

I love to add a lot of color to my salads, so to make this one look like a rainbow, I used snap peas, cherry tomatoes, and radishes.

To keep with the whole pasta theme, I added some basil pesto to the dressing.

It’s simple, low in calories and so delicious and healthy, you can enjoy it without any guilt

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Zucchini & Yellow Squash Salad

  • Author: Melissa Mayo

Ingredients

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FOR THE SALAD

  • 2 yellow squash- ends trimmed
  • 2 zucchini – ends trimmed
  • 1 sweet yellow corn
  • 1 cup– sugar snap peas
  • 1 cup cherry tomatoes
  • ¼ red onion
  • 3 radishes
  • 2 TBS black sesame seeds to garnish
  • ¼ cup Parmesan shavings

FOR THE DRESSING

  • 2 TBS basil pesto
  • ¼ cup olive oil
  • 1 TBS Dijon mustard
  • Lots of salt and black pepper
  • Juice of 1 lemon

Instructions

Whisk the ingredients for the dressing together to combine and set aside

Use a spiralizer or veggetti to cut the zucchini and yellow squash into spaghetti-like strands.

Halve the cherry tomatoes and sugar snap peas. Slice the radishes into thin disks. Cut the onion into thin slivers.Cook the corn in a paper towel in the microwave for 4 minutes. Stand it on one end and remove the kernels.
To Assemble
Place the yellow squash and zucchini spaghetti in a bowl. Top with the the cherry tomatoes, snap peas, onions, radishes and corn.

Garnish with black sesame seeds and Parmesan shavings.

Dress just before serving and lightly toss to coat.

SERVES 4

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