Italian Stuffed Spaghetti Squash Boats (Keto Pleasant Recipe) • Low Carb with Jennifer

On this Stuffed Spaghetti Squash Boats recipe, roasted spaghetti squash halves are filled with an easy home made Italian meat sauce, layered with cheeses, then broiled till golden brown. Easy? Sure. Crave-worthy? Positively.

Stuffed Spaghetti Squash Boats

My absolute favourite spaghetti substitute is spaghetti squash. It has a candy taste that compliments heavy sauces such because the sauce in my Spaghetti Squash Alfredo Recipe and it helps reduce via the richness of my Meat Lovers Spaghetti Squash Casserole.

Roasting spaghetti squash, versus steaming, brings it to a different degree. It’s nowhere close to mushy and yields al dente, pasta-like strands in a shorter period of time. It is really the one technique to prepare dinner spaghetti squash! That is the precise technique I take advantage of to make my Baked Feta Pasta with cherry tomatoes.

When my youngsters had been little I may feed them spaghetti squash and they’d be none the wiser! These days are gone, sadly. That is okay, although, which means extra for my meal prep!

What you want

Here is what you want for this low-carb spaghetti squash recipe (the printable recipe card is towards the underside of this web page):

2 spaghetti squash: Spaghetti squash vary from 2-4 kilos. Smaller ones will feed 2 folks and bigger ones may feed 4 relying on somebody’s urge for food. So every particular person will get their very own half, I like to recommend a small to medium squash.

Seasonings for the squash: Salt and black pepper are a should. Different taste additions can be purple pepper flakes and/or Italian seasoning.

2-4 tablespoons avocado oil: or any oil corresponding to olive oil or canola.

24-36 ounces marinara sauce: I like to recommend making my Keto Spaghetti sauce for this recipe, however you can even use your favourite store-bought marinara sauce and blend it with cooked floor meat.

1 pound lean floor beef or candy Italian sausage: Italian sausage in spaghetti sauce is an effective way to inject much more taste into this dish. Different choices are floor turkey, spicy Italian sausage, or hen sausage.

Shredded mozzarella cheese and parmesan cheese: The quantities rely upon how many individuals you serve. Every particular person would require at most ½ cup of cheese (until you need your spaghetti squash boats extraordinarily tacky).

Additions to think about: You actually could make this stuffed spaghetti squash recipe your individual. For added vitamin you possibly can wilt recent spinach into the bottom meat. That will be a recipe with a number of veggies! Use cooked hen breast as an alternative of floor meat for a cheessy hen spaghetti bake.

How you can make stuffed spaghetti squash boats

Let me present you make this keto-friendly spaghetti squash recipe step-by-step.

Roast the spaghetti squash:

1. Microwave: My trick to ensure spaghetti squash is not mushy is to microwave it for five minutes (ensure that to make use of a pointy paring knife to stab a big gash in it so it could actually launch steam) so it’s simpler to chop.
2. Prepare for roasting: Let the squash cool so you possibly can deal with it, then use a pointy knife to chop the squash in half lengthwise.
3. Scrape out the seeds: Use a spoon to scrape out the middle of every squash half, which incorporates the seeds.
4. Season and roast: Coat every half with oil utilizing a brush, season with salt, pepper, and different seasonings of selection, and place flesh facet down on a baking sheet. Roast the spaghetti squash at 425F for 25-Half-hour or till the squash can simply be pierced with a fork. The cooking time will fluctuate based mostly on the scale of the squash.

Make the sauce:

I extremely recommend my keto spaghetti sauce recipe or use 24-36 ounces of your favourite jarred sauce in your spaghetti squash bowls. My sauce recipe makes use of recent herbs and complete canned tomatoes which are pureed right into a tomato sauce for the least quantity of carbs (good for the keto food plan). Rather than the bottom beef in that recipe, use floor turkey or floor Italian sausage if you happen to choose.

Stuff the spaghetti squash boats:

1. Make the strands of spaghetti squash: Use a fork to scrape the flesh away from the spaghetti squash shells to make spaghetti squash noodles. Style the noodles for seasoning. It is going to more than likely want extra salt.
2. Pour the sauce: Ladle a few spoonfuls of sauce into every spaghetti squash half, and blend the sauce into the noodles with a fork.
3. High with cheese: Sprinkle mozzarella and parmesan cheeses over the spaghetti squash combination.
4. Broil: Place the squash again on the baking sheet and put underneath the broiler to soften the cheese. Alternatively, you possibly can put them in a big baking dish. Watch fastidiously so they do not burn!

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