5x unhealthy with your Spirelli

It’s been a hot topic for a while now. The spirelli. Eating healthily with courgetti instead of pasta. Fancy carrot strips in your salad and cucumber strands as a snack. Great for all the fit girls. But what do you do as a food lover with such a device?

Is there a spirelli in your kitchen drawer? And does the device never come out? Because you turn your nose up at all the dishes you can make with this ingenious little tool? Courgette strands are fun, but not at the expense of your pasta. And you prefer to eat your cucumber in slices rather than strands.

Recipe: chicken with preserved lemon and ras el hanout

Unhealthy strands
Here, then, is the reason to get it out after all. Because fortunately, you can also use the spirelli to indulge in some deliciously unhealthy food!

Spirelli fries

In her latest book, Nigella Lawson has a recipe for fries made with the spirelli. Spiralize thin strands of potato and then put them in the deep fryer. Is that not unhealthy enough for you? Turn the spirelli fries into poutine.

Sweet potato gratin

Sweet potato also works well in the spirelli. Sweet potato isn’t ‘slim’, but it isn’t necessarily unhealthy either. Put the sweet potato strips in the oven sprinkled with a thick layer of blue cheese. Very tasty, but no longer quite so healthy.

Spirelli churros

Make a sweet pastry dough. Shape it into a roll and place it briefly in the freezer so that the dough becomes firm (it doesn’t have to freeze completely, otherwise it will break in the spirelli later). Most spirellis can be set to two settings, fine and coarse. Choose coarse and spiralize strands of dough, which you then deep-fry briefly. Even tastier when you dip this slender version of Spanish churros in sugar, cinnamon or chocolate.

Sugared apple

Even if you actually find the spirelli too much work. You can make this in no time at all: spiralize strands from your shiny red apple and sprinkle them with sugar. Delicious in yoghurt or over ice cream.

Chips in strands

For an evening on the sofa. Or an original snack at your birthday party. Homemade spirelli chips. Make the potato strips as thin as possible, drizzle them with olive oil and salt, and put them in the oven. Even better with a dipping sauce.