20 Spiralizer Recipes to Help You Keep Your Diet Clean

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 beets or red beets.

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.

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.

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.

Fall inspiration hits hard in this recipe, which features a spiralized beet noodle foundation topped with a nuanced pumpkin Alfredo and crunchy spiced pecans.