{"id":4293,"date":"2013-05-06T04:46:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T10:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=4293"},"modified":"2013-05-04T00:01:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T06:01:20","slug":"practically-calorie-free-spaghettie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=4293","title":{"rendered":"Practically Calorie Free Spaghetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4296\" alt=\"I love Calorie Free Spaghetti\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/I-love-Calorie-Free-Spaghetti-510x340.jpg\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/I-love-Calorie-Free-Spaghetti-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/I-love-Calorie-Free-Spaghetti-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/I-love-Calorie-Free-Spaghetti.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the last couple months I\u2019ve started trying those trendy, \u201ccalorie free\u201d noodles\u2026and I have to say I really like them. I remember hearing about them years ago and it was hard to find places that sold them. I guess I wasn\u2019t <!--more-->looking the right places, because it\u2019s not that hard to find\u2026you just go to an Asian market\/store, a health food shop, or an International supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not the cheapest thing in the world, but if you get them at an international stores (rather than a health food store), they\u2019re not too pricey.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What they actually are:<\/span><\/strong> They come from the root of an Asian plant called konjac\u2026they\u2019re mostly made up of water and glucomannan, a water-soluble dietary fiber. By themselves they have little flavor of their own. They\u2019re usually packaged in a water filled container, which you will drain and rinse before cooking.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4295\" alt=\"Calorie Free Yam Noodles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Calorie-Free-Yam-Noodles-510x378.jpg\" width=\"510\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Calorie-Free-Yam-Noodles-510x378.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Calorie-Free-Yam-Noodles-1024x759.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Calorie-Free-Yam-Noodles.jpg 1457w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Why I like them:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NO calories! (What?!)<\/li>\n<li>NO fat<\/li>\n<li>NO carbs (like maybe 1g!)<\/li>\n<li>Taste pretty good \u2013 a great vehicle for flavour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Things I don\u2019t like as much:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Texture &#8211; If you\u2019re expecting it to be like cooked noodles, you\u2019re in for a disappointment\u2026the texture if more chewy<\/li>\n<li>Usually a little more pricey \u2013 I think I\u2019m going to consider buying <a title=\"Calorie Free Noodles\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/YkM97p\" target=\"_blank\">a box of it on Amazon<\/a> to stalk up instead of buying one little container at a time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I made this faux pasta a little while ago and I really enjoyed it. The whole thing couldn\u2019t have been many calories, yet I felt really full after a big plate of this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4294\" alt=\"Calorie Free Spaghetti\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Calorie-Free-Spaghetti-510x340.jpg\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Calorie-Free-Spaghetti-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Calorie-Free-Spaghetti-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Calorie-Free-Spaghetti.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure this is really a recipe \u2013 it\u2019s just too simple\u2026but that\u2019s why I like it. After getting home from a long day of classes, this was the best dinner!<\/p>\n<p>All you have to do is boil the yam noodles until hot (after draining and rinsing with cold water). The noodles actually don\u2019t really take any cooking time (more like heating time).<\/p>\n<p>Or you could heat up your pasta sauce and warm your noodles in that at the same time. That way, they can soak up some of that flavour.<\/p>\n<p>For my pasta, I used tomato sauce (super low calorie) with the addition of some organic, lean ground beef (seasoned with Montreal steak spice). Honestly, can you get simpler than that? Next time, I\u2019m adding mushrooms and veggies galore \u2013 when I\u2019m not in such a hurry.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Have you tried the hyped up \u201ccalorie free\u201d noodles? And what did you think of them?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last couple months I\u2019ve started trying those trendy, \u201ccalorie free\u201d noodles\u2026and I have to say I really like them. I remember hearing about them years ago and it was hard to find places that sold them. I guess I wasn\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,225,833,8,15],"tags":[2210,2218,2217,2211,2215,2221,2222,2220,2216,2219,2213,2214,2212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4293"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4302,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions\/4302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}