Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, spaghetti squash with pesto and chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Slice your spaghetti squash in half lengthwise and scoop out the seeds. I've done spaghetti squash with pesto before and love it, but the added veggies and chicken make it over the top! Nutrition information estimated with My Fitness Pal.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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
- Get 1 medium Spaghetti Squash
- Get 2 tbsp Olive Oil
- Get 1/2 lb Cooked cubed chicken
- Prepare 1 medium Red pepper sliced
- Take 4 tbsp Pesto sauce
- Take 2 tbsp Pesto paste
- Take 1 pinch salt to taste
- Take 1 pinch pepper to taste
- Get 4 tbsp Parmesan cheese
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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!
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