Hen Alfredo Spaghetti Squash Boats is a nourishing and comfortable meal throughout the colder months.
Spaghetti squash is such a fantastic vegetable to exchange pasta once you’re consuming a grain-free food regimen. When it’s cooked correctly, it maintains the crunch and mouth-feel of stringy pasta.
After I prepare dinner spaghetti squash as a facet dish, I minimize it in half, scoop out the seeds, minimize it into 2″ rings, lay the rings flat on a baking sheet and bake for one hour at 400ºF. It’s such a straightforward technique to put together this vegetable with out it getting mushy.
For this recipe, I wished to maintain the squash in “boats” however nonetheless keep that crunchy texture. So, these are minimize in half and baked, cut-side down.
Whereas they’re baking, you may mix the hen Alfredo combination after which mix all of it when the squash has baked.
The mix of the flavors topped with the cheese is dynamite!
These spaghetti squash boats are fairly filling, so that you may discover one “boat” and only a mild salad or some steamed broccoli on the facet is lots for a full meal for two.
Hen Alfredo Spaghetti Squash Boats
- Prep Time: quarter-hour
- Prepare dinner Time: 1 hour quarter-hour
- Complete Time: 1 hour half-hour
- 2 spaghetti squash, minimize in half length-wise and seeds eliminated
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 6 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon granulated garlic
- 1 tablespoon arrowroot
- 1 cup entire milk (I like to recommend uncooked, however you can too use pasteurized, however non-homogenized)
- 1 cup heavy cream {I like to recommend uncooked, however you can too use pasteurized, however non-homogenized)
- 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
- 1 tablespoon Celtic sea salt
- 3 cups cooked and shredded hen breast
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 400ºF and modify the rack to the center place. Place the 4 squash halves, cut-side down on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 45 minutes. You are able to do this earlier within the day if wanted.
- Soften the butter over medium warmth in a saucepan. Stir within the chopped and granulated garlic, and arrowroot. Whisking continually, add within the milk and cream, and proceed to prepare dinner till simply beginning to thicken, about 5-7 minutes. Whisk within the parmesan and salt. Stir within the shredded hen.
- Utilizing a potholder, rigorously decide up a spaghetti squash half and, utilizing a fork, scrape the spaghetti squash out of the pores and skin and into a big bowl. Repeat with remaining 3 squash halves. Pour Alfredo sauce over the squash and stir till included. Spoon a fair quantity of squash combination again into every of the 4 squash “bowls”. Prime with mozzarella cheese. Bake for half-hour till mozzarella cheese is popping golden brown and bubbly.