Make Lasagna That Won't Gain You 500lbs

What’s more comforting than a big tray of lasagna during the winter months? The short answer is nothing. Just lasagna. Seriously, it keeps forever, and is one of the best things to come home to when you have no energy to cook.

Now, your usual lasagna dish is a carb overload thanks to its multiple layers of pasta noodles, sauce and meat, and the fat content of all the extra cheese that you absolutely have to shred and coat over the tray.

A real simple way to cut some of the carbs out from this heavy dish is to substitute pasta noodles for zucchini.

All you have to do is thinly slice the zucchini, sprinkle it with salt and layer it between your sauce and meat and any other delicious ingredients you want to throw in there. Cooking it is exactly the same, but the taste is incredible. The zucchini has a tender texture and sweet flavor and only contains 21 calories per cup. It’s also a fantastic source of vitamin C, as well as having a robust nutritional profile.

The health benefits aren’t limited to vitamin C, however, as zucchini is also rich in phytonutrients and minerals.

As if that wasn’t enough, zucchini is also full of manganese, which is an essential mineral. Similar to Vitamin C, it helps protect your body from harmful free radicals. Manganese also helps your body produce collagen, which is essential for efficient wound healing.

The fact that you can get all that healthy goodness by just replacing those useless pasta noodles with your own homemade zucchini noodles, begs the question: Why would you ever make lasagna any other way?

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