Kugel by Peter W
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Kugel
Kugel is a traditional Jewish baked pudding or casserole most often made from egg noodles. It can be savory or sweet. This recipe is intended as a dessert and uses spaghetti squash instead of noodles. The entire recipe is unlimited non-starchy vegetables plus 54 calories of extras. In other words, you can have half of it and count it as vegetables plus 1 extra. BTW half is about 8 vegetable servings.
(That's a 6" plate in the photo, not a dinner plate.)
Ingredients:
3 to 4 lb spaghetti squash, cooked (pulp and seeds discarded)
1/4 cup egg beater
1/4 cup Splenda granulated
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
Preparation:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly spray a 9" square baking dish with neutral oil or butter-flavor spray.
2. Scrape the spaghetti squash with a fork to collect strands of squash in a large bowl. Add the egg beater, Splenda, cinnamon and nutmeg and mix with a spatula.
3. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan. Lightly spray the surface with neutral oil or butter-flavor spray. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for another 30 minutes until the kugel starts to turn a bit golden.
Q&A
Question: Can you describe the taste of it? This looks cool, but I'm having trouble imagining what the taste/texture are like.
Answer: It has a soft texture similar to a bread pudding. The taste is cinnamon sweet, but not too sweet.
Question: What portion of the entire recipe do you have on that plate?
Answer: 1/8 of the recipe.
Question: Ok Peter...this may sound like a silly question but here goes. Is the 3-4 lbs of squash including the weight of the skin or the scraped squash? So I guess in other words when buying a spaghetti squash and weighing it before purchase how big do you think it should be, approximately. Not that it would ever go to waste if I had too much but I would like to make sure I buy enough to begin with. I'd like to try both this recipe and the Ginny's Pie (Happy Birthday by the way!!) and want to make sure i have enough for both.
Answer:The 3 to 4 lbs is the weight of the whole squash including skin, seeds and pulp
Kugel is a traditional Jewish baked pudding or casserole most often made from egg noodles. It can be savory or sweet. This recipe is intended as a dessert and uses spaghetti squash instead of noodles. The entire recipe is unlimited non-starchy vegetables plus 54 calories of extras. In other words, you can have half of it and count it as vegetables plus 1 extra. BTW half is about 8 vegetable servings.
(That's a 6" plate in the photo, not a dinner plate.)
Ingredients:
3 to 4 lb spaghetti squash, cooked (pulp and seeds discarded)
1/4 cup egg beater
1/4 cup Splenda granulated
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
Preparation:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly spray a 9" square baking dish with neutral oil or butter-flavor spray.
2. Scrape the spaghetti squash with a fork to collect strands of squash in a large bowl. Add the egg beater, Splenda, cinnamon and nutmeg and mix with a spatula.
3. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan. Lightly spray the surface with neutral oil or butter-flavor spray. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for another 30 minutes until the kugel starts to turn a bit golden.
Q&A
Question: Can you describe the taste of it? This looks cool, but I'm having trouble imagining what the taste/texture are like.
Answer: It has a soft texture similar to a bread pudding. The taste is cinnamon sweet, but not too sweet.
Question: What portion of the entire recipe do you have on that plate?
Answer: 1/8 of the recipe.
Question: Ok Peter...this may sound like a silly question but here goes. Is the 3-4 lbs of squash including the weight of the skin or the scraped squash? So I guess in other words when buying a spaghetti squash and weighing it before purchase how big do you think it should be, approximately. Not that it would ever go to waste if I had too much but I would like to make sure I buy enough to begin with. I'd like to try both this recipe and the Ginny's Pie (Happy Birthday by the way!!) and want to make sure i have enough for both.
Answer:The 3 to 4 lbs is the weight of the whole squash including skin, seeds and pulp
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