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Raw food recipe for heirloom tomato marinara sauce and summer squash noodles

Last night, Rick and I had a couple of friends over for dinner to share in our heirloom tomato harvest. 🙂 We made spiralized squash with some sunburst squash from the garden and a marinara sauce from garden tomatoes, sundried tomatoes and some other simple ingredients:

Marinara Sauce (one serving)

2 medium fresh tomatoes (2 cups chopped)

6 soaked sun dried tomatoes (1 ounce dry or 28.3 g)

½ tsp. dried oregano or other Italian spices

1 medjool or other type of date

ÂĽ ripe avocado or one tablespoon of chia seeds

We blended the fresh tomatoes, spices, date, and avocado in a high powered blender, then added soaked sundried tomatoes and blended until smooth. For a lower fat recipe, one could leave out the avocado or chia seeds. For garlic lovers, one could add ¼ clove of fresh garlic. We used heirloom tomatoes from our garden for this recipe, but popular red varieties would work well too.

To make squash pasta, we used a vegetable spiralizer. The resultant “noodles” had the consistency of linguine al dente, since the squash used was mature – we let some of the summer squash in our garden get a little too big this year.

In general, for spiralizing, we like to use squash or zucchini that is younger in order to create softer noodles. We added the noodles to a bed of romaine lettuce mixed with chopped red bell pepper:

Summer squash pasta and salad (one serving)

4 cups spiralized yellow summer squash served on a bed of 4 cups of lettuce mixed with 1 cup of chopped red bell pepper.

 Here are some nutrients in the sauce, pasta, and salad:

Recipes Adult Daily Values
Calcium 245 1000 – 1200 mg
Iron 8.4 8 – 18 mg
Magnesium 239 310 – 420 mg
Potassium 4125 4700 mg
Zinc 3.7 8 – 11 mg

Here is a picture of the final dish:

It was sooooo good 🙂

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