Prep time
60 mins
Total time
70 mins
Serves
4 people
Level
Medium
About the recipe
Here is a gourmet spaghetti squash and meat sauce dish for the entire family! Low carb, gluten-free, healthy, and full of flavour, your kids will never know they that are eating squash!
Ingredients
Preparation
1. Preheat the oven to 400 °F (200 °C).
Squash Prep:
2. Cut the squash in half long ways and remove the seeds.
3. Rub olive oil on the inside of the squash, then add salt and pepper.
4. Adding 5 tbsp of water to a baking sheet, cook the squash face down for one hour or until cooked. It is cooked when the flesh of the squash easily pulls away from the side “shell.”
5. Let the squash sit and cool.
Meat Prep
6. Sauté the onion in oil.
7. Add the remaining ingredients for the meat prep.
8. Mix and sauté together until fully cooked.
Putting it together
9. Now that the squash has cooled a bit, gently scrape the inside of the squash with a fork pulling the “spaghetti” from the skin of the squash. Be careful not to break the skin of the squash.
10. Gently fold together the meat mixture with the “spaghetti” part of the squash that was removed.
11. Once mixed evenly, add the meat/squash mixture back to the shell of the squash, evenly distributing it into two parts/two halves.
12. Add fresh sliced mozzarella and Italian herbs on top of the final mixture and put everything back into the oven for 5-10 minutes until the mozzarella is melted.
13. Serve with a side salad, a glass of red wine and enjoy!
