Spagetti Squash

[Marilyn]

This isn't a recipe, more a food question.

Has anyone cooked a spagetti squash? I have one in the oven. A book I have says it's a great substitute for pasta and is a very healthy alternative. I'm planning spagetti for supper and am giving it a try. The squash was very expensive, over $5.00. Hope it's worth it.

[Chandra Amaya]

I've never even heard of it. Good luck & let us know how it turns out. Sorry I'm no help.

[blowry]

Originally Posted by Marilyn

This isn't a recipe, more a food question.

Has anyone cooked a spagetti squash? I have one in the oven. A book I have says it's a great substitute for pasta and is a very healthy alternative. I'm planning spagetti for supper and am giving it a try. The squash was very expensive, over $5.00. Hope it's worth it.

I LOVE spaghetti squash! I don't put mine in the oven...I steam it...I have never had it with sauce but I have heard it is not bad that way...I usually eat mine as a vegetable...Has a nutty flavor to it..Let us know how it is with sauce.
I don't think I paid $5.00 for it though,..that sounds expensive.

[Marilyn]

The spaggetti squash turned out great!!! I baked it. The instructions said to cut it in half, remove seeds & bake it cut side down for 45 minutes, flip the pieces over and bake until tender then use a fork to scrape out the strings of squash. A four pound squash was done after cooking about 1 hr 15 min. at 350 deg. I would think that it would be very good steamed and would probably cook faster.

I served it as a spagetti substitute with a sauce made using browned extra lean ground meat with a small amount of olive oil & Muir Glen Organic Garden Vegetable Pasta Sauce. Topped with shredded parmesian.

We also had salad with organic caeser dressing.

It did have a bit of a nutty flavor as Blowry stated, which was actually very good with the pasta sauce.

I'm hoping in the fall when the squash is more in season, it will be less expensive, but well worth trying!!

We had some left over and a website I checked said that the squash freezes well after it is cooked.

This would be good to add to soup or something later.

[blowry]

Did it taste like spaghetti?

[Marilyn]

It did not taste like spagetti noodles. It tasted like a vegetable, but it was in soft strings like spagetti noodles are, and substituted for the noodles very well, and tasted really good with the tomato pasta sauce.