We all know this traditional Italian dish is known for its creamy, buttery, cheesy flavor! The flavors of this dish are a dream in your mouth! I was very excited to see how I could possibly make this dish a little more nutritious! Was it possible? Absolutely!
My motive on recreating this dish was to add as many nutrient dense ingredients, while at the same time removing any unnecessary toxins or filler ingredients.
To start off, I was actually hoping to cheat with this meal and find a good organic Alfredo sauce. Turns out, at least in my local grocery stores, that was impossible to come by. So I decided to suck it up and make my own sauce. Honestly, it wasn't that hard. I don't know why I wasted so much time looking for a canned sauce when it was just as easy to make my own.
For this recipe I just went off of "feel" rather than recreating an existing recipe. I looked up a few recipes but none of them really stood out to me so here's what I ended up with.
Fettuccini Alfredo Recipe
Ingredients
4 Tbls Grass fed butter
1/4 yellow onion, minced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 head cauliflower, diced
1/2 cup bone broth
2 cups organic whole milk
1 cup parmesan cheese, grated
1 Tbls Italian seasoning
1 tsp salt
pepper to taste
Instructions
In a pot, melt the butter than add onion and garlic, sauteing on medium heat for 1-2 minutes until fragrant and translucent. Add the cauliflower, cooking for another 1-2 minutes, or until fully coated in butter sauce. Next, pour in bone broth, whole milk, and seasonings, simmering on low heat until cauliflower is nice and soft. Pour all ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth. Pour back into pot, return to low heat and add parmesan cheese, stirring until melted. Serve immediately over your favorite organic pasta, spaghetti squash, or with chicken.
Tips
If you remember from the previous post last week, when it comes to buying cheese, buy it in a block to avoid any unnecessary preservatives. It's typically the same price or even slightly less expensive! Since this recipe contains a lot of dairy, I wanted to make sure that it was high quality and had no filler ingredients. Originally I had in mind to use organic heavy whipping cream but I could not find it at my local grocery stores, so I opted for organic whole milk instead. Honestly, with the amount of cheese I added and the cauliflower, my sauce was thick enough without the cream and I think this recipe turned out great without it. Because we don't have dairy much in our home, to buy a half gallon of organic whole milk wasn't a big deal to me. It's more important to me that our milk is pure and clean than to get a dairy that will make it harder on the gut by having added preservatives.
I always have bone broth on hand, but if you don't, just remember to look for bone broth that doesn't contain sugar in it, or any of the sugar substitutes! We don't NEED sugar in bone broth! You will have better luck find a bone broth without sugar when you start looking at the organic brands. Why don't we want sugar? Well sugar is very inflammatory, the fewer sugars we have in our diets, the less inflamed our guts and bodies will be.
We served our Alfred over squash and gluten free noodles. Honestly, I liked it best over the squash! I would have been just fine without the noodles. We did top our plates off with adding some rotisserie chicken to the dish for more protein. It was quick and easy! Just what I needed tonight.
One last tip! When using table salt, look for sea salt or Redmond's Real Salt. This salt has no additives or preservatives, sugar, or starches. A lot of our table salt contains more than just salt. This is completely unnecessary. We really only need one ingredient in our salt...which is, duh, SALT! So next time you go to buy more salt, check the ingredients listed. You might be shocked to find that there's more to your salt than salt.
Overall, this dish was simple, easy, AND nutritious! Making recipes healthier doesn't have to mean swapping out all of the ingredients for vegetables and bone broth (although I was half tempted to try something like that tonight without dairy). Looking at what's in our food is the most effective way to start making healthier changes. Being aware of which toxins are added to what we eat is HUGE when it comes to reducing inflammation and toxic overload. There's always a healthier way of making food. We just need to be more educated on what to look for to avoid or include in our meals! If this is something you struggle with learning how to do, consider signing up for my 4 week Intro to Learning Nutrition Course. Start learning the basics of how to improve your health! In just 4 short weeks you will be well on your way to knowing how to live a healthier, more nutritious, lifestyle!
Happy cooking!
Love,
Danielle
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