Spaghetti Squash Newbie

Bake it, then scoop out the guts and use it as spag!! My daughter makes an awesome cold salad using it... I will try to get the recipe.

I too baught my first spaghetti squash at the farmers' market today. I'm making chicken parmesan with the squash as the base. Hope it's tasty.

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I've never made it before... but I think the idea is to roast it, and then take a fork to it so that it comes out in long-spaghetti-like strands.

I'm not sure on the specifics for time and temp for roasting, though....

Good luck!

Bake it or make a soup out of it Ingredients

1 Spaghetti Squash
4 tablespoons of olive oil
1 Garlic clove finely chopped
½ cup parsley
1 chopped onion
1 chopped tomato
Chicken broth or stock
Carrots and Spring onions
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
Cut the spaghetti squash in two pieces and clean it by removing all the seeds. Bake it in an oven at 350 degree for about an hour. In a stock pot, heat some olive oil, add the chopped garlic and onions, fry them till they turn golden brown. Now add the tomatoes and the other vegetables with parsley and fry it for sometime. Add the baked spaghetti squash and pour the chicken broth in the stock pot with the above ingredients. Heat the mixture on a low flame till the soup is of a thick consistency. Add salt and pepper to taste. If you like your soup a little spicy you can add red chilly flakes. Top the soup with some boiled noodles or toast pieces if you don't like it plain.

.WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS SQUASH? [/quote]

First cut the squash in half and remove the seeds. The skin is hard and takes a little effort to half. Bake cut side down on a baking sheet that has a little Pam spray on it. Yoou can add a little water for steaming but it's not necessary. Bake for about 30-45 minutes at 350 degrees. it's done when the squash half is plyable.

let it cool so you can handle it, use a fork and remove the eatable squash flesh from inside the shell. Comes out stringy hense the name spaghetti. then use it however you want. Hot with meat sauce, no meat jusr sauce, cold as a salad, numbers of ways to use it. And like some of the other post on this, there are lot of receipes out there. Enjoy.

Oh my goodness I love it. I'm not a big veggie fan so when I find something I like I run with it. Most recently I used it to make chicken parm. Before that spaghetti and meat sauce. It isn't exactly like spaghetti but close enough that I can pretend. The best part is, I'm getting veggies from the squash, tomato sauce and when I take to time to saute some, the onions that go oh so good on top. Plus there is a good bit of fiber and very few calories as I remember.

I have cooked it two different ways.

1 cut in half and scrape out the seeds, bake it (can't remember how long or at what temp for sure) and then after letting it cool use a fork to pull out the "spaghetti"

2, and this is the easier method if you ask me, Poke holes in the squash and bake it whole at 375 for about 1 hour in a shallow baking dish. Let it cool, cut in half, removed seeds, and again use a fork to get out the goodies. I like this better because it is easier to cut in half once its cooked and in general I like that you don't have to do much at the front end.

After you have your squash you can do just about anything too it, top it with sauce, toss it with a little olive oil and parm and some garlic for something a little simpler, the sky it the limit. just be aware you may have to reheat as it dose seem to get cold fast but the microwave is fine for this.

Good luck and enjoy!

You might want to ask this as post of it's own. More people might see it.

This sounds excellent! I'm going to look for one this weekend -- do they usually sell them at regular chain grocery stores? I love pasta but have been avoiding it due to the caloric content...so this sounds like heaven!