Spiralised zucchini puttanesca

Despite being part of the Mediterranean diet, pasta is a high-GI, starchy food that is broken down rapidly into sugars. And unfortunately brown pasta is not much better. For those of us trying to find alternatives to pasta, a spiraliser, which looks a bit like a giant serrated pencil sharpener and shreds chunks of veg into wonderful strands of ‘vegetti’, has become one of the must-have pieces of kitchen equipment. We have a fairly low-tech kitchen – most of the gadgets we do have lurk somewhere towards the back of the kitchen drawers. But the spiraliser is still right up there at the front. It works best on firm vegetables like carrots, zucchinis, butternut pumpkin, celeriac (and if this all sounds too much like hard work, the good news is that you can now buy pre-prepared spiralised veg from most supermarkets).