Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, spaghetti squash with pesto and chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This Paleo spaghetti squash dinner makes great leftovers too! Chicken is coated with pesto and layered in a cheesy spaghetti squash bake in this creative twist on baked pasta that your family will love. Use a fork to scrape insides of squash into spaghetti strands.
Spaghetti Squash with pesto and chicken is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Spaghetti Squash with pesto and chicken is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have spaghetti squash with pesto and chicken using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Spaghetti Squash with pesto and chicken:
- Prepare Spaghetti Squash
- Take 1 medium Spaghetti Squash
- Take 2 tbsp Olive Oil
- Make ready 1/2 lb Cooked cubed chicken
- Get 1 medium Red pepper sliced
- Take 4 tbsp Pesto sauce
- Get 2 tbsp Pesto paste
- Take 1 pinch salt to taste
- Make ready 1 pinch pepper to taste
- Make ready 4 tbsp Parmesan cheese
It tastes really similar to the "real" pasta and even the kids love it. Chicken pesto pasta is a fragrant recipe that is great for fall when winter squash is in season! This cheesy, loaded Chicken Pesto Spaghetti Squash is a healthy low-carb and high protein dinner the whole family will love! If you want to make pesto spaghetti squash even quicker, you can use your Instant Pot to cook the squash.
Instructions to make Spaghetti Squash with pesto and chicken:
- Cut squash in half. Clean the seeds from the center. Brush with olive oil, salt and pepper slightly. Place on foil lined cookie sheet. Skin side up. Bake 50-60 min @ 350°F.
- Cut chicken into stips, season with salt and pepper, cook on stove top till done. (15 min). Cut into cubes when done.
- Cut red pepper into strips and saute untill done - tender.
- When squash is done shred with fork and scoop from shell into baking pan. (9 x 9 or 9x13).
- Mix the Pesto sauce and pesto paste together. (I used the Market Side Cooking sauce - Basil pesto and Gourment Garden Basil paste in the fresh vegtable section from Wal-Mart) Add to the squash in baking pan. Add the chicken and red pepper to the squash. Mix all together. Top with parmesan cheese. Bake @ 350 for 30 min. Cool 5 min - Enjoy!
Pour a cup of water into the bottom of the Instant Pot. Add in the spaghetti squash, pesto, and chicken, and toss until well combined. After the mixture is heated through, toss in the cherry tomatoes and give the pan one last toss to help everything come together. How to Make Damaris' Parsley Pesto Spaghetti Squash Give pesto pasta a healthy makeover with this easy recipe that combines low-carb spaghetti squash with high-protein chicken breast.
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