Squash is the new Noodle!

This was the second spaghetti squash recipe I tried and YUM YUM YUM!
Seriously if you've never tried squash, YOU MUST.
Squash is the PERFECT substitute to kick the carbs and make this a gluten free meal!

Lasagna Style Spaghetti Squash 

Ingredients:
1 spaghetti squash
1 lb Italian sausage or any choice of meat (I used ground turkey)
2 cups of your favorite pasta sauce
2 tablespoons fresh basil
½ cup ricotta cheese
½ cup shredded mozzarella cheese (plus extra for topping)
Olive oil or coconut oil
salt & pepper

Roasting the squash
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees. Wash spaghetti squash, cut off stem and slice squash lengthwise. Scoop out the seeds and gunk. (save the seeds and roast them!) Brush with oil, season with salt and pepper, and place in baking dish (9×13 works well) with a little water in the bottom of the dish — as the squash cooks, you can add more water if it dries up. Roast for 45-60 minutes, depending on squash size, or until inside is soft and easily “fluffs” with a fork. It will look like very tiny spaghetti noodles… hence the name, cool huh?

While squash is roasting, brown Italian sausage in large skillet over medium heat. Remove sausage from the pan drain and set aside.
Add sauce to the pan and simmer. Add the sausage back into the sauce.

In a bowl, combine the ricotta, mozzarella, and fresh basil, set aside.

When squash is tender, remove from oven and using a fork, scoop, fluff, flake, scrape, whatever you’d like to call it, to get the inside of the squash to look like spaghetti noodles. You don’t have to get at ALL of the squash, you can scoop more later when you get to the bottom after it’s been filled and you’re enjoying it for dinner.

Now we FILL THEM! Start with a scoop of the red sauce, followed by a layer of the cheese mixture, (you can add extra mozzarella on each layer too!) and repeat the layers until you’ve over filled your squash, ending with a layer of red sauce and then topping them with mozzarella. Totally over fill these suckers.

Turn the oven to broil and put them back in to brown up the cheesy top. Enjoy!

This recipe is SO filling, makes great leftovers and you won't feel guilty about gobbling it up :-)


HAPPY COOKING! :-)