LOW CARB BLACK BEAN SPAGHETTI WITH CREAMED ASPARAGUS
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Forget zoodles! With just 8g carbs, this black bean spaghetti meal is totally healthy and ketogenic and delivers the real pasta experience!
Author: Antya
Recipe type: Main Course
Cuisine: Ketogenic. Low Carb. LCHF. Grain Free. Gluten Free. Vegetarian.
Yield: 2
Ingredients
- 100g black bean spaghetti
- 400g fresh green asparagus
- 30g butter
- 100ml double cream
- 80g Gorgonzola cheese
- 30g freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- handful of coarse Himalayan pink salt
- fine Himalayan pink salt, freshly ground black pepper and paprika to taste
- sprinkle of nutritional yeast
Instructions
- snap off the thick part of the stem and discard, then boil or steam asparagus until a fork goes through the fattest part of the stem easily.
- cut the tips off and set aside.
- blitz asparagus stems until smooth, then transfer to a pan.
- to the asparagus paste, add butter, cream, Gorgonzola and Parmesan, and warm up over low heat, stirring continuously.
- add salt, pepper and paprika to taste and set aside, lid on.
- fill up ⅔ of a pan with water and add coarse salt.
- put lid on and bring to the boil.
- plunge black bean spaghetti into the boiling water and put lid back on.
- as soon as the water starts to boil again, reduce heat slightly and remove lid.
- cook for 5 mins while you re-heat creamed asparagus.
- lay creamed asparagus onto serving plates (preferably warmed up), top with drained spaghetti, asparagus tips and a sprinkle of nutritional yeast.
- serve immediately.
Notes
Metric kitchen scales are an inexpensive yet invaluable gadget to enable accurate measurement of ingredients. Store them upright in a cupboard or over your worktop and they'll only take up a tiny bit of space. Click HERE for the ones I use.
Nutrition
Calories: 718 Fat: 52g Net Carbs: 14.5g Protein: 39g
Recipe by Queen Keto at https://queenketo.com/low-carb-black-bean-spaghetti-creamed-asparagus/