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Zucchini Noodles with Sunflower Seed Butter Dressing Recipe {Daniel Plan Recipe}

March 14, 2016 by Jeanette 9 Comments

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These Zucchini Noodles with Sunflower Seed Butter Dressing are delicious! The dressing, made with sunflower seed butter and coconut milk, is rich and creamy.
Zucchini Noodles with Sunflower Seed Butter Dressing - this dressing is SO delicious! Made with sunflower seed butter and coconut milk, it is rich and creamy.

We are halfway through our Daniel Plan study and it’s been an amazing journey so far. Witnessing the positive changes that the women in our group have made already is truly inspirational. I’ve found that telling everyone my S.M.A.R.T. goal has helped keep me accountable – exercising at least five times a week. Mixing things up has kept me from getting bored – going to the gym some days, using an app to run/walk on some days, and doing a Daniel Plan fitness video on other days.

I even signed myself up for a 6 week Tai Chi class which starts in a few weeks. Although Tai Chi isn’t really an exercise program, it is supposed to help with better balance and muscle control.

Zucchini Noodles with Sunflower Seed Butter Dressing - this dressing is SO delicious! Made with sunflower seed butter and coconut milk, it is rich and creamy.

In addition to exercising more, I am also being more mindful of the proportion of protein to vegetables (read this post to learn more about The Daniel Plan “Perfect” Plate) that I eat, substantially cutting back on pasta/bread/rice from my diet for the time being, and trying to drink more water. We’re supposed to be drinking half our weight in water, which is a ton of water. Warning: This is not something you should attempt unless you are near a bathroom at all times!

To help get me on track, I finally broke down and bought a spiralizer.  I have an old Joyce Chen one from years ago, but it only makes very fine noodles and can’t handle large pieces of vegetables. I have almost every kitchen appliance you can imagine, so I really didn’t want to buy another small kitchen appliance, but after borrowing my friend’s spiralizer for a few days, I decided to buy my own. It’s a great way to eat a lot more vegetables at mealtime.

Zucchini Noodles with Sunflower Seed Butter Dressing - this dressing is SO delicious! Made with sunflower seed butter and coconut milk, it is rich and creamy.

Chef Neena, the Commons Manager at Grace Farms gave me her recipe for these Zucchini Noodles with Sunflower Seed Butter Dressing to make for our first Daniel Plan session and they were delicious. The dressing thickens once refrigerated, so you may need to thin it out with some water before tossing with the zucchini noodles. I suggest tossing the vegetables with the dressing last minute as zucchini and cucumbers have a high water content and the noodles will become soggy if tossed too far in advance.

Zucchini Noodles with Sunflower Seed Butter Dressing - this dressing is SO delicious! Made with sunflower seed butter and coconut milk, it is rich and creamy.

Zucchini Noodles with Sunflower Seed Butter Dressing - this dressing is SO delicious! Made with sunflower seed butter and coconut milk, it is rich and creamy.
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Zucchini Noodles with Sunflower Seed Butter Dressing

Servings 4

Ingredients

  • 3 green zucchini
  • 3 summer squash
  • 1/2 red onion thinly sliced
  • 3 carrots
  • 2 cucumbers
  • 1/2 cup chopped cilantro

Creamy Sunflower Seed Butter Dressing

  • 1 cup sunflower seed butter
  • 1 cup coconut milk
  • 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon coconut aminos or gluten-free soy sauce
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
  • 1 teaspoons rice vinegar

Instructions

  1. Spiralize zucchini, summer squash, carrots, and cucumbers. Add onions and cilantro and toss. Reserve until time to serve.

Creamy Sunflower Seed Butter Dressing

  1. Place dressing ingredients in a food processor and process until smooth.
  2. Just before serving, toss dressing with vegetables. You may need to thin out dressing a bit with water if it is refrigerated before use.

Recipe Notes

Toss vegetables with dressing right before serving as zucchini and cucumbers release quite a bit of liquid.

For more Daniel Plan recipes, you might like:

Slow Roasted Salmon
Slow Roasted Salmon - this is the easiest and best way to cook salmon - it is so moist and delicious!
Vegetable Lentil Chicken Sausage Soup

Daniel Plan Vegetable Lentil Chicken Sausage Soup - this soup is packed with healthy ingredients - turmeric, lots of fresh vegetables, lentils and some chicken sausage for flavoring
Sun Dried Tomato Hummus

Sun Dried Tomato Hummus with Crudite Platter - this delicious sun dried tomato hummus compliments this rainbow of vegetables perfectly
Steamed Kale and Poached Egg with Sriracha Sauce

Steamed Kale with Poached Egg and Sriracha Sauce - this simple breakfast is healthy, low carb, gluten free, dairy free and vegetarian. This can be enjoyed as part of the Daniel Plan meal plan.

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Filed Under: Clean Eating, dairy-free, Faith, gluten-free, low carb, lunch, New Year, salads, vegan, vegetarian Tagged With: Daniel Plan Recipe, spiralizer, The Daniel Plan, zoodles, zucchini noodles

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Comments

  1. rachel@ atheltic avocado says

    March 14, 2016 at 7:24 am

    Now that dressing looks amazing! Im pretty sure I could eat that with a spoon 🙂

    Reply
  2. Rachel @ Delicious Balance says

    March 14, 2016 at 7:31 am

    This looks like perfection. I have been feeling uninspired with my spiralizer lately. I am definitely going to give these a try!

    Reply
  3. Kelli @ Hungry Hobby says

    March 14, 2016 at 8:34 am

    I’m with you on the spiralizer thing… I have every kitchen appliance known to man so why haven’t I bought when yet when I want it so bad!?!? I think because every time I think about I just end up buying a spaghetti squash ha ha! Love the sauce it looks DELICIOUS!

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  4. Chelsey says

    March 14, 2016 at 9:45 am

    I’ve been playing around with the perfect sunflower seed butter sauce for zoodles for SO long to replace peanut noodles (I have a nut allergy), but I haven’t liked ANY of the recipes I’ve tried (and there have been SO many). This one seems different and delicious so I can’t wait to try it!!! Thanks for the gorgeous looking & sounding new recipe!

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  5. Shashi @ RunninSrilankan says

    March 14, 2016 at 10:18 am

    I got a spiralizer for Christmas, but, I haven’t made anything quite this decadent! Jeanette, that Creamy Sunflower Seed Butter Dressing sounds delightful! And it’s Daniel Plan approved!

    Reply
  6. Michelle says

    March 17, 2016 at 10:54 am

    This looks yummy! Would you mind sharing which spiralizer you purchased?

    Reply
    • Jeanette says

      March 18, 2016 at 7:09 am

      I bought the Paderno Spiralizer with 4 blades (because I wanted the angel hair blade for harder vegetables like carrots and beets)

      Reply
  7. Kelly Hopkins says

    April 6, 2016 at 10:01 am

    I highly disagree that tai chi is not an exercise program. I’ve been a student of the art for over a year and can attest it is a better program than yoga was for me. Just my two cents.

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    • Jeanette says

      April 7, 2016 at 4:18 pm

      Kelly – I’m completely new to tai chi so am learning more about it – I do like it a lot more than yoga

      Reply

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