hi everybody welcome to happy healthy you special edition today we're making a mung bean pasta dish with stephanie dignan from the boot camp girl hi stephanie this is your favorite dessert it is one of my fav it's my favorite pasta oh my gosh so it's not a typical wheat pasta it's it's made out of beans it's made out of beans it's actually made out of mung beans it's high in protein high in fiber rich in iron so it's a really healthy pasta you can have pasta and still be healthy awesome okay all right so jeff rose from natural zing is our chef today and he's going to take us through the preparation of this beautiful dish it's really a beautiful presentation jeff how do we make this take us through the preparation today we made this in a vitamix high speed blender you can also make it in a cuisinart and we put in the juice of a lemon spinach a couple of cups of spinach some fresh herbs fresh and dried herbs we actually used and we blended that together to make our sauce we used a little water in there also and we have shiitake mushrooms pine nuts and sunflower seeds as a topping and we've also have some diced tomato and some cannellini beans cannellini beans right here okay and some hot pepper for someone that wants to go a little bit spicier so it's really simple basically the toughest part was cooking the noodles right me your place steph let's uh plate it up the sauce should be done long before the noodles are yeah this is great what's the nutritional value of this stephanie well believe it or not the package of that mung bean pasta has 100 grams of protein so a serving of it has 25 grams of protein and if you're looking to do plant-based protein you can get a lot of it through beans nice look at how pretty that is and we put some onions and garlic in there and we used the onions and garlic raw so we only used a small amount of it but this sauce can actually be simmered or heated also so today we're having a raw version of the sauce okay let's try it shall we try it you know that pasta has the same sort of texture as regular pasta i think i just got green sauce on my nose this is good job good i like the spices thank you very good so tell us a little bit more about natural zing natural zing has been in business for 10 years and now we distribute 1500 of the best raw vegan and organic products that we source from all over the world well so we can just go to your website to order any of your products yes it's available at naturalzing.com and stores also carry us around the u.s great thank you jeff thank you so much for making this delicious mung bean pasta thank you stephanie for introducing me to this because i've never tried mung beans bean pasta yeah thanks for having me and we'll put this recipe on stephanie's website thebootcampgirl.com correct it'll also be on the happy healthy youth facebook page and then jeff you want to join in and put it on the natural thing we'll have it on my website as well awesome well thank you guys thank you cheers this is an awesome lunch bye you guys have a happy healthy week