20 Spiralizer Recipes to Help You Keep Your Diet Clean (2024)

There's nothing the food-loving blogosphere loves quite as much as zoodles, aka noodles made from spiralized zucchini. Touted as a healthy alternative to traditional pastas, zucchini noodles have a similarly remarkable ability to absorb flavors and add texture, except this version is remarkably lower in calories. But while we're all for the healthy alternative that zoodles provide, you're not doing your spiralizer justice if this is the only thing you're using it for. In fact, the power of your spiralizer — and the recipes you can make with it — is endless: sweet potato noodles, potato twisters, beet spaghetti, and more. You name it, there's a good chance you can spiralize it and turn it into a restaurant-worthy dish.

Parsnip Spaghetti All’Amatriciana

This Parsnip Spaghetti All'Amatriciana recipe both dramatically and impressively transforms an indulgent dish into a diet-friendly one. The parsnip noodles are able to stand up to the traditional all’Amatriciana combination of guanciale, tomatoes, cheese, and red pepper.

Tuscan Kale and Sausage Ragu With Butternut Squash Fettuccine

While spiralized veggies are often thin and spaghetti-like, this recipe calls for the butternut squash to be cut into thicker, meatier noodles in order to hold up beneath the hearty ragu.

Kohlrabi Spaghetti and Kale-Mushroom Bolognese

You don’t need to be familiar with kohlrabi to nail this inventive Bolognese recipe— in fact, it may just be the best first foray into the exotic vegetable. The light kohlrabi noodles and the heavy flavor of the kale-mushroom Bolognese make for a well-balanced profile.

Spiralized Parsnip Nests With Eggs, Bacon, and Arugula

These gorgeous nests, which get their signature shape from being built in muffin tins, are filled with an egg, arugula, and hot sauce. The parsnip base is cooked in bacon fat and seasoned with garlic powder — making it a supersavory, perfect breakfast bite.

Spiralized Apple Tartlets

These raw mini desserts are as delicious as they are delicate and beautiful. The crust is a simple combination of dates and dried apples, while the filling is a blend of Fuji apple spirals and cinnamon.

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Cajun Sweet Potato Noodles

These fun, colorful noodles combine Cajun flavors with spiralized sweet potatoes, onions, bell peppers, and mushrooms.

Celeriac Pasta With Walnut and Apple Sauce

While celeriac may be a more unusual ingredient compared to zucchini, this blogger claims that it's even easier to spiralize. Celery’s cousin takes center stage in this dish that plays on the "applesauce" of your childhood.

Chinese Cucumber Noodle Salad With Sesame-Crusted Tuna

A Cozy Kitchen takes a cue from the classic Chinese Smashed Cucumbers appetizer, using the spiralizer on the cucumbers and adding the tuna protein to elevate this salad dish to main-course status.

Thai Drunken Zucchini Noodles With Spicy Honey Chicken

Though the base of this recipe is the standard zucchini noodles, the Thai-style dish is a fresh and inventive way of using this healthy alternative as a foundation for a truly inspired meal. The recipe also uses coconut oil, yet another diet-friendly ingredient that is majorly on trend.

Spiralized Jicama and Avocado Salad

This fresh, raw, and summery take on a guacamole-style salad uses spiralized jicama alongside tomatoes, red onion,jalapeño, and avocado.

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Sweet Ricotta Pear Ribbons With Roasted Honey Walnuts and Figs

This recipe single-handedly proves that desserts don’t have to be unhealthy. The rich ricotta rounds out the sweet flavor profile built from the figs, honey walnuts, and pear ribbons.

Greek Turkey Meatballs and Tomato Beet Spaghetti

Bet you’ve never had spaghetti and meatballs with beets — until now, that is. This Paleo recipe balances out the flavors of salty feta, rich tomato, meaty turkey, and sweet beets to create a flavorful and healthful dinner.

Korean BBQ Steak Bowls With Spicy Sesame Dressing

This dish, made of Korean BBQ-style steak, spiralized bell peppers, scallions, greens, and wonton strips, is incredibly versatile. Pinch of Yum outlines the different ways the blend can be used, including as a salad, stir-fry salad, stir fry, noodle stir fry, or wrap filling.

Loaded Twisted Taters

Twisted. Taters. Guys. This inventive (and incredibly fun) take onon a traditional loaded baked potato is absolutely delicious.

Roasted Butternut Squash Noodles With Crispy Prosciutto, Browned Butter, and Sage

This bright recipe draws inspiration from a classic Italian pasta dish: butternut squash ravioli. The classic combination of butternut squash, browned butter, and sage is preserved — and accentuated by the salty prosciutto — while the spiralized veggie makes this interpretation both modern and lower in carbs.

Beet “Pasta” With Lemon-Crème Sauce and Broiled Salmon

The tart-rich lemon-crème sauce both enriches the salmon element and balances out the signature sweetness of the beet pasta. To highlight the versatility of this spiralized ingredient, In Sonnet's Kitchen offers options to create this pasta dish with either golden beetsor red beets.

Creamy Spinach Sweet Potato Noodles With Cashew Sauce

The flavor profile of sweet potato pairs so well with cream, and this rich combination makes this recipe feel like anything but a diet dish. She also coins the term "swoodles," which is an appropriately adorable nickname for some supercute sweet potato curls.

Soy Sauce Sweet Potato Noodles

Right off the bat, this blogger tugs at our heartstrings by describing using a spiralizer as an adult version of playing with your food. Love & Olive Oil’s spicy-sweet, Asian-inspired dish uses a base of spiralized sweet potatoes with layered flavors including sesame oil, dark brown sugar, sriracha, soy sauce, and Shaoxing wine.

Rainbow Vegetarian Pad Thai With Peanuts and Basil

Instead of using spiralized veggies as a replacement for regular noodles, this veggie-heavy Pad Thai uses them to complement the noodles, a healthy variety made from brown rice. For how complex the flavors and how stunning the result, this recipe is shockingly easy to make — and, of course, delicious to eat.

Beet Noodle Pumpkin Alfredo With Spiced Pecans

Fall inspiration hits hard in this recipe, which features a spiralized beet noodle foundation topped with a nuanced pumpkinAlfredoand crunchy spicedpecans.