Kitchen Equipment # 1 – The Spiralizer
A spiralizer is a small device with which you can cut vegetables, even really hard ones, into interesting curly shapes – including long spaghetti or tagliatelli-like strands:
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| spiralized courgette | spiralized butternut squash |
If you want to eat more raw food a spiralizer is great, as it means you can use vegetables like courgette, carrot, sweet potato and butternut squash to make pasta or noodle-style dishes:
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| enzyme-rich pasta | satay-style noodles (recipe here) |
These dishes not only taste fantastic and look good but, importantly, they really give you the feeling of eating a familiar, satisfying dish. This can be particularly important when you are new to raw foods and want a dish that feels like a cooked one does, when you want to share a vibrant, living dish with friends or family or when you have a special event you want to prepare food for.
Spiralizers can be purchased online for around £30.
One of the most popular makes is Lurch. They have two models – the Spirali and the Spiralo. The Spirali is slightly larger and the vegetables move through the cutting device horizontally; the Spiralo is a smaller model and works with downwards pressure pushing the vegetables through the cutting device vertically. I have heard good things about both models. There are also other makes available – if you’re using a different one let me know what you think of it.
I have a Lurch Spirali. Here is a quick video of it in action:
* Spiralizer is spelt, not without misgivings, with an American ‘z’ not the Englsh ‘s’ because if you try to buy a ‘spiraliser’ anywhere online you’ll not be able to find one, but if you instead look for a ‘spiralizer’ you’ll be fine!
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