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DinnerHealthy Spaghetti Squash with Shrimp
This healthy spaghetti squash recipe is bold in flavor and simple to make. It's a great healthy dinner option that everyone will love!
Ruth TruettIngredients
- 1 Spaghetti squash
- Avocado oil
- Salt and pepper
- 5 pieces, chopped Bacon
- 2 cups Cherry tomatoes
- 1, chopped Yellow onion
- 3-4 cloves Garlic
- 1 bunch, rough chopped Lacinato kale
- 1, juiced Lemon
- 1/4 cup Heavy cream
- 1/4 cup Parmigiano Reggiano
- 1 lb Shrimp peeled and deveined
Instructions
- 1Wash and fry squash. Microwave 5 minutes. Cut in half and remove seeds. Spray with avocado oil, season with salt and pepper, roast at 400° flesh side down 30-40 minutes. Remove squash strands and set aside.
- 2Render bacon in skillet on med-high until crispy. Remove bacon. Cook onion in bacon fat a few minutes. Add tomatoes, cooking until they begin to burst. Add garlic and kale, until kale wilts. Add cream and Parmesan to combine.
- 3Season shrimp with salt and pepper. Sauté shrimp in avocado oil on medium high heat until they curl and turn pink. This should take only a few minutes.
- 4Toss spaghetti squash strands, sauce and shrimp together. Serve and enjoy!
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Open in Pepper →Why Spaghetti Squash Is the Most Honest Pasta Swap
Spaghetti squash is the only low-carb pasta substitute that doesn't fight you. Roast it, fork the strands out, sauce it, eat it. 8g carbs per cup vs. 43g for regular pasta — and it actually holds sauce.
Zucchini noodles are the second pick. Spiralize, salt for 10 minutes to pull moisture, sear hot and fast so they don't water out. Best with garlic-butter shrimp, bolognese, or pesto.
On Pepper, home cooks return to the low-carb pasta formulas that truly satisfy. The spaghetti squash recipes that get passed down and prepared again and again are those that transform a simple swap into a delicious, dependable dinner.
Quick Tips
- 1
Roast spaghetti squash cut-side down
Steam pocket forms inside, flesh comes apart in perfect strands. Cut-side up gets mushy.
- 2
Salt zoodles before cooking
Sprinkle, wait 10 minutes, squeeze. Otherwise your sauce ends up in a puddle.
- 3
Sauce hot, serve fast
Low-carb pasta swaps water out as they cool. Plate within 60 seconds of saucing.
- 4
Skip the boxed 'keto pasta' if you can
Most are 30g of fiber and gum. The vegetable route tastes better and digests easier.
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