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white bowl with cooked brown rice spaghetti mixed with lots of steamed vegetables and sundried tomatoes topped with a boiled egg chopped in half

Gluten-free spaghetti with green vegetables

A very bland and gluten-free pasta dish that's easy on a sensitive stomach.
Recommended:
beginning and middle of the chemo cycle
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Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 15 mins
Total Time 20 mins
Servings 1 po

Ingredients
  

  • ½ red onion, peeled
  • 2 garlic cloves, peeled
  • ½ leek
  • 3 pieces of sun-dried tomatoes, soaked in boiling water until soft
  • 4 pieces tenderstem broccoli, or normal broccoli
  • 5 pieces Brussels sprouts
  • a handful of spinach
  • 1 egg, preferably organic
  • 2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • a handful of frozen peas
  • a bunch of brown rice spaghetti, approximately 80-100 grams

Instructions
 

  • Wash all your vegetables thoroughly.
    Pay special attention to the leek and make sure that there’s absolutely no soil residue left there.
  • Cut the broccoli stems in half, Brussels sprouts into quarters and slice the leek into thin slices (about 0.5 cm thin). Chop the onion and sun-dried tomatoes and finely chop the garlic.
    In a small pan bring the water to boil, lower the heat and boil the egg on medium-low heat for 15 minutes.
    In a deep pan boil the water and cook the spaghetti according to the cooking instructions on the pack and drain once cooked.
  • In another pan steam the broccoli and Brussels sprouts on low heat for around 3-4 minutes, making sure they’re just cooked and soft but not overcooked.
    chopped tenderstem broccoli and brussels sprouts in a steel steaming basket in a glass saucepan
  • Pour the olive oil into a frying pan, heat it up on a medium-low heat, lower the heat and sauté the onion and leek for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the garlic and sun-dried tomatoes sauté for further 2 minutes.
    chopped vegetables with a little bit of olive oil in a frying pan
  • Add the peas and stir well, after a minute or two add the steamed broccoli and Brussels sprouts and warm them through.
    lots of green chopped vegetables and a little bit of olive oil in a frying pan
  • Mix it with the brown rice spaghetti and serve with the boiled egg on the top, sprinkled with some salt and a tiny bit of red pepper (optional).
    white bowl with cooked brown rice spaghetti mixed with lots of steamed vegetables and sundried tomatoes topped with a boiled egg chopped in half

Notes

This dish is incredibly bland. 
If you’d like to eat it when not on chemo, you can easily add bags of flavour into it with an addition of some anchovies or olives, or both.
Keyword bland, easy, gluten-free, nutritious, quick, simple