Paleo Sun-Dried Tomato Vegetable Noodles Recipe | The Whole Smiths (2024)

This easy vegetable noodles recipe from The Whole Smiths is brought to you in partnership with Mann’s Fresh Vegetables. This nutrient-dense low-carb noodle dish is dairy-free, gluten-free, whole30 approved and paleo. Not to mention, delicious!

This easy vegetable noodles recipe with creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Sauce is a healthy low carb twiston a classic Italian Pasta dish!

How on earth did we eat our veggies before we started spiralizing them? Oh, yeah… in a can!

Or in fairness, we steamed them to death.

Thankfully times have changed and we’ve figured out lots of tasty new ways to get our veggies in. Vegetable noodles being one of them.

As evidenced by my Pesto + Chicken Zoodles, Pork Fried Cauliflower Rice and the Spaghetti Squash Chicken Alfredo (from The Whole Smiths Good Food Cookbook, you can get yours HERE) recipes, you know I’m a fan of using nutrient dense vegetables in place of grains.

But I have to confess, I’m not always a fan of “zoodle-ing” them myself, particularly on a busy weeknight. Thankfully, that’s where Mann’s Fresh Vegetables comes to the rescue.

Which vegetables can be spiralized?

So, which vegetables can be spiralized? As a rule, all veggies that are:

• not hollow, seeded or have a tough core.
• at least 1.5″ in diameter for best experience.
• a minimum of 2″ long for best experience.
• firm, with a solid flesh (no squishy, juicy fruits or veggies.)

For vegetable noodles recipes that are tossed with a creamy sauce like this one, I like to use:

• Zucchini
• Kohlrabi
• Sweet Potato
• Squash
• Potato
• Turnip
• Parsnips

For cooking times of each vegetable, use this guide.

Pressed for time? Use pre-spiralized vegetable noodles!

I love the variety of already prepared vegetables that Mann’s offers at grocery stores nationwide. You know I am a fan of making things easier in the kitchen and they do just that.

Currently, my favorite veggie of theirs is the Kohlrabi Linguine. In fact, I’m going to go out on a ledge and say that by this time next year kohlrabi noodles will be everyone’s favorite.

If I’m being super honest, I haven’t had a lot of kohlrabi in the past. It’s a mild tasting vegetable with a light texture, which makes it the perfect vegetable to replace any pasta.

What I’m loving the most about the Kohlrabi Linguine is how well it holds up as a pasta. As you may know, vegetable noodles can often get a little soggy if you don’t prepare them properly.

Add a sauce on top of that and you’re liable to get a mushy pile of pseudo pasta. But not with these kohlrabi noodles! They hold their shape, texture, and consistency perfectly against any sauce.

Making it even easier, all you need to do is microwave them in their own bag to cook them. From there you add the sauce, toss and presto… your “pasta” is ready.

I really wanted to create a recipe for these tasty vegetable noodles that had a creamy flavorful sauce that packed a punch. Enter the sun-dried tomatoes.

Tips for making this vegetable noodles recipe:

• When searching for your sun-dried tomatoes make sure to read the labels. Often times you can find less than desirable additives in them and that’s a no-no.I typically use the organic tomatoes from the Whole Foods 365 label. In fact, those ones are so clean they’re Whole30 compliant. So if you are looking to make this Whole30 keep that in mind.
• A trick that I use when making a dairy-free cream sauce that I am planning to add to a vegetable noodle is that I like to make it a bit on the thicker side. The reason being is that a vegetable noodle is going to release a bit of its natural liquid into the sauce and will loosen it up a bit while you are tossing it into the warm sauce.
• Feel free to add your favorite protein like chicken or shrimp to this for a complete meal.

Truly, this vegetable noodles recipe has grown to be one of my new favorites! Whether it’s the flavor of the creamy sun-dried tomato sauce, my new favorite veggie or because it’s just so darn easy to make, I’m not sure.

But one thing I do know is that you’ll love these kohlrabi vegetable noodles just as much as we do.

Make sure to use the veggie finder over at Mann’s Fresh Vegetables to see where you can find these kohlrabi zoodles for making this vegetable noodles recipe at home.