Ingredients (for each serving)

• two thin skin zucchini (if you have an orchard, best if freshly picked)


• one lemon


• one tablespoon pine nuts


• one tablespoon flax seeds

Preparation

• With a potato peeler, slice the zucchini lengthwise.


• Salt the slices and put them in a deep bowl.


• Squeeze the lemon and pour the juice over the sliced zucchini. This is the very simple marinate: the acid juices of the lemon, "cooks" the zucchini, making it palatable even when uncooked.


• Let sit for half an hour, then place the slices on a wide plate, pouring the lemon on top of them.

Now it's time to add some sparkle to this recipe.

To roast the nuts, put the pine nuts in a non stick pan and turn the heat on medium. Constantly monitored them, they burn really quickly.

Once the pine nuts are roasted, put them though a grinder with the flax seeds. Sprinkle everything on the zucchini.

It is very important to finely grind the flax seeds. If you eat the seeds whole, your system flushes them without getting the benefits of Omega 3 & Omega 6. Two tablespoons of flax seeds provides all your Omega 3 needs for the day.

Finally, you can "treat: yourself by adding some grated parmesan.

Two raw zucchini slices takes up quite a bit of stomach real estate. Just what you want to happen when dieting. By adding nuts and seeds to this recipe, it makes the dish rich while remaining very light!

Enjoy!

Nutritional Info
Calories: 177
Carbs: 21 grams
Fat: 10 grams
Protein= .6 grams
P.S. This recipe also covers 59% of your Vitamin C daily needs!

When Tacita isn't filling her tummy with slices of raw zucchini, she's blogging.