Edamame Spaghetti Meal
My last promise to a nutritionist was to try a healthier spaghetti called Edamame. She promised I would love it, unlike the plain Greek Yogurt Ranch Dressing Coleslaw she said I would love and I thought it was awful. I don’t like plain yogurt and I told her that!
A healthier way to eat a spaghetti meal is by using this Edamame Spaghetti. It is made from soybean flour and the cooking time is much less compared to regular spaghetti. It has a very different texture compared to regular spaghetti and is high in protein.
Did I like it? When I first started tasting it, it was just ok. However, I found if I smothered it in my delicious unhealthy spaghetti meat sauce, to cover up the taste, I could eat it. The longer I ate it the more it grew on me. It was only an 8 oz box and it took me 4 times to finish eating it. Will I buy it again….no.
I don’t know why people think that because it is healthy, it is good. I can’t even eat wheat pasta, it’s all regular white pasta for me. I’m sure my healthy eaters will have a lot to say but I have tried many times and many types of pasta. For me, eat what tastes great but in portion serving sizes!
Ingredients – Also Parmesan cheese
Boil a pot of water.
Once boiling, cook the Edamame
according to the package directions.
Heat your favorite sauce until hot.
Drain the Edamame
Place on a serving dish, top with
sauce, Parmesan cheese and serve.
Edamame Spaghetti Meal
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Ingredients
- 8 oz. box of Edamame Spaghetti
- 2 cups spaghetti sauce, your favorite
- Grated Parmesan cheese
Directions
- Cook Edamame spaghetti according to the package directions.
- Heat spaghetti sauce over medium heat until hot.
- Drain spaghetti.
- Place spaghetti on serving dishes and top with spaghetti sauce.
- Sprinkle Parmesan cheese on top and serve.
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Categories: Cheese, Pasta, Sauces, Vegetables/Slaws/Salads
Looks good!
You’re right it does look good but not my cup of tea. It was the strangest texture. Thank you!
Sounds scrumptous, but it’s not on our Whole 30, so it will have to wait! I’ve never heard of Edamame noodles… Hmmm…
They held up very well to cooking. Just not for me. Thanks Kevin!
I’m with you, Diane. There are plenty of other good ways to get vegetable protein into your diet. I believe in moderation, plenty of protein and veggies, and not too much fat or sugar (except perhaps at Christmas, when all bets are off). If you have a genuine health problem that is exacerbated by diet, that’s another story.
I love all pastas! I just love it!
I need to find more time because I want to get back to making my own pasta again. I love making it as much as I do eating it!
Love you. Truely I do… (Sung to the tune from “Oliver” or “Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang!” – Don’t remember which!) And I thought edamame was a “flavour experience, like sweet, sour, bitter… That sort of thing. I guess it’s an experience I’m glad you tried so I don’t have to waste my precious time on it. Did I mention I love you? 😁🤣😊
Hahaha yes love me, because I doubt you will love Edamame Spaghetti!😘😘😘😘
I wonder if flavour, as WE know it – fats, sugars, salt and nutrition as your nutritionist knows it could ever come to a compromise?? Wish yes, think no.
It’s good that you tried it Diane, then the issue is done and dusted.
I use riced cauliflower in place of pasta and I really enjoy it.
Thank God!!! I heard that riced cauliflower is good but my husband would NEVER go for that..lol
This is so funny and SO true! Seems like lots of things that are better for us taste like…well, taste yucky!! Good for your for trying though! xoxox
Thank you and I will stick to fresh veggies, fruit and regular pasta…lol
Sounds suspiciously too healthy 😉
Yes I agree! lol
I love it when I learn something every day. I’d never heard of Edamame Spaghetti. I’ve become accustomed to eating whole wheat pasta, but I think I’ll pass on Edamame. You’re brave, Diane, to try such things. I tend to agree with you that it’s all about portion control, and we should eat what we like. When my uncle was 97 years old, his wife wouldn’t let him eat ice cream because it was bad for him. My sister and I made a pact on the spot that if we live to that age we will let each other eat all the ice cream we want!
That’s silly! If I make it to 97 I will eat whatever I want! Oh wait, I do that now! 😂🤣😂🤣
There’s only two reasons to eat non wheat pasta, either you are diagnosed celiac or crohns. The other substitutes done come close and offer no real nutritional advantage. I do however try and eat wholegrain. If it is finely ground and ground whole you shouldn’t be able to tell much difference. It’s the cheaper flours where they add the bran back to white flour that aren’t great.
I’ve tried and tried and just can’t do it so I just eat what tastes good. I will die with a smile on my face and a satisfied tummy….lol Thank you for your nice comment Tabula!
I agree with you… smaller portions.
But I do love Spaghetti on Spaghetti Squash! If you make the Spaghetti Squash so it has a bite to it… almost a crunch… it’s perfect in our book.
My daughter and I was just joking about this. I make all kinds of different foods as you know. When she was young I told her everything was chicken such as rabbit-frog legs-duck etc. I made spaghetti with the squash and I never said a word and she said “Mom, why does this taste weird?” hahahaha couldn’t pull it off. Now she is 28 and fixes it herself. Better late than never.
The dish you prepared looks delicious. Will I try it? No. I’m with you on this one. There are healthy changes that can be made without sacrificing taste. If I’m going to eat something, it should be worth eating. Also, I try to remember all the “bad” foods that are now “good” foods. The “experts” don’t always get it right.
Thank you I knew I wasn’t the only one that thinks this way!
“I found if I smothered it in my delicious unhealthy spaghetti meat sauce, to cover up the taste, I could eat it.”
🤣🤣🤣
We KNOW bad eating habits can lead to serious health issues, and I had a great-aunt who was ALWAYS saying, “Eat to live, don’t live to eat,” (sit down, Aunt Maye!) but there’s just no way I’m eating anything simply because it’s “healthy.” It has to taste good to ME AND look appealing. 😉
Yes!!!! I make the doctors crazy! They keep telling me to lose weight and eat better yet I don’t have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, no diabetes etc.! Nothing wrong with the way I cook and it tastes good! 🤣
I need high protein, but that spaghetti sounds awful.
I’m trying to keep an open mind. I wouldn’t say it was awful, but it was close…lol
Amazing – keep up the good ideas Diane… 👍
Thank you!
I get it. Some healthy food is horrible. Then other times you need to try it a couple of times to get past the resistance. It is all about finding what works for you.
Exactly! Give me fresh veggies not soybean flour pasta.
Fresh veggies is the best way to go!
I’m all for healthy eating but I feel that the “healthy” food should taste good as well as benefit you. If the food that you’re eating tastes like rubber then there will be a natural human repulsion and the food won’t benefit you. You need to love the food you eat.
Amen Jess!!!
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😆😆😆😆 I wouldn’t eat it either.
Hahaha yes once was enough for me!
I so agree with you Diane! Eat whatever it tastes good or whatever you like, but never exaggerate. I live my life like this and so far so good 😉 I never did any diet and I have the same weight for the last 10 years or so…I always eat everything but never exaggerate 😉
Will you be my doctor! Hahahaha
You’re right Diane – that’s the smarter way. Life is too short not to at least enjoy your food.
If or when I develop health problems and have to take medicine I may change my mind. But, at my age, if my way of eating hasn’t killed me yet hopefully it won’t down the road.
Yes – very true. My mom decided about 15-20 years ago that she had to cut out our sodium in all her cooking. She started using “Salt Sense” and said it was not the same but after listening and reading about all the use of sodium, she changed her way of cooking, but other than that, no other changes. We stopped eating salt on french fries but I think fast food fries they salt a little when cooking anyway, but didn’t use it at home – that was the biggest adjustment for me as I liked salt on my fries. (But I also had burgundy velour seats in my car at that time, so that it was nice not to be brushing off salt crystals!)
Hahahaha burgundy velour seats!!!!!! That’s hilarious Linda!
Thank you!
Texture really matters when it comes to food and none of the so-called healthy alternatives ever seem to take that into account.
For sure!!!!!
The only “healthy” pasta I like is the spinach kind, I don’t like wheat either. I’ve never tried edamame though.. lol, I think I’ll stay away after what you said. 😛
I would actually try spinach! I love spinach!
Look for it in the cooler section of your grocery store, it’s good!!
Thank you!
I would definitely give this a try, but – like you – I prefer the more traditional pasta. To me, pasta made from other ingredients just doesn’t seem natural, haha.
Right there is no substitute especially if it’s homemade pasta!