Paleo Veggie Stir Fry

You are going to love this recipe! I discovered something called coconut aminos which is a soy free substitute for soy sauce! It's all the flavor without the soy or high salt! Cooking with this stuff will change your life. I found coconut aminos at Whole Foods in the Asian food section but you can also order it through Amazon here. Coconut aminos is basically the “sap” of the coconut tree. The sap produced is loaded with amino acids, minerals, and is low on the glycemic index. You can read more about this amazing ingredient here.

Tonight, I decided to make a stir fry that was adapted from an Asian Style "Noodles" recipe. I had a bunch of vegetables that needed to be used, so a stir fry is always a good solution. The sauce for this recipe reminds me of a peanut sauce (but without the peanuts of course). It's VERY tasty and could probably be used on chicken as well. Hope you like it as much as I did!

Ingredients:

1 tbsp olive oil
1 large cooked spaghetti squash (you could use zucchini noodles as well)
1/2 yellow onion, diced
1/2 red bell pepper, sliced into strips
1 large head of broccoli, florets cut off
3 carrots, sliced into matchsticks
2 cloves garlic, minced
4 tbsp almond butter
6 tbsp coconut aminos
2 tbsp Red Boat fish sauce (this is a sugar free brand)
Juice of 2 limes

Ingredients

Instructions:

1. Pre-heat oven to 375 deg.

2. Cut spaghetti squash in half and clean out seeds.

3. Place spaghetti squash in glass casserole dish filled with 1 inch of water, hollow side down.

4. Bake for 45 minutes, remove and let cool. Scope out squash and set aside.

5. While squash is cooking, heat 1 Tbsp of oil, in a large skillet, over medium high heat. Saute onions, 3-4 minutes.

6. Add the broccoli and carrots and sauté for 3-4 minutes or until mostly tender.

7. In a blender, mix together garlic, almond butter, coconut aminos, Red Boat fish sauce, and lime juice.

8. Add the sauce to the stir fry and mix thoroughly (you may not need to use all of the sauce).

9. Add the spaghetti squash to the stir fry or serve stir fry over spaghetti squash (see picture below).

Stir fry served over spaghetti squash