Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Spaghetti -Spaghetti Squash With Chicken Meatballs

I have made Spaghetti Squash for 2 years now. The first year I made this it didn't like it. What I made didn't work at all. This year it turned out great. I decided to make homemade chicken Meatballs with marinara. Just a quick tip for onion dicing do it in the food processor before you make the meatballs and remove what you need for the sauce.
Ingredients
Spaghetti Squash

Meatballs
1/2 large onion diced
3 chicken breasts
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups seasoned bread crumbs
2 TB garlic powder
1 TB Italian Seasoning

Sauce
1 can Italian Diced Tomatoes
1 can Tomato Sauce
1 small can Tomato paste
1/2 large onion diced
1 large red bell pepper
3 TB Italian Seasoning
3 TB garlic powder
salt and pepper to taste

Directions
Heat oven to 375 degrees place whole Spaghetti Squash in a baking dish and cook for 1 1/2 hours. While Squash is cooking place meatball ingredients into a food processor. Pulse until all ingredients are mush and balling together,(Basically looks like hamburger). Heat Skillet, add 2 TB olive oil. Roll mixture into desired size meatballs. And brown the outsides of each meatball. Season them with salt and pepper as they cook to your preference. Then in a large pot saute your onions for the sauce in 2 TB olive oil. Once onions become clear add meatballs and pour in all ingredients for sauce except red bell pepper. Let cook on med high. In skillet where you cooked meatballs roast your red bell pepper if you haven't done so already. Keep turning till well blistered and starts to seem softer. Should be a little black on outside. Then with tongs remove pepper and rinse under cold water. Scrape blackened skin off of pepper and cut out the stem and seeds. Then place and blender and puree it. Once pureed add to tomato sauce and allow to cook stirring regularly for 1/2 hour. Then cover and simmer sauce while you wait for you Squash to finish. When Squash is finished remove from oven. Use a hot pad or wash cloth and hold Squash while you cut off stem and cut lengthwise in half. Scoop out seeds and then with a fork scrape out squash meat into a bowl. It should easily start to look like short spaghetti noodles . Then serve with sauce and meatballs. Enjoy!

If you are worried that your kids may not like this my son who likes to turn up his nose at vegetables loved it. Here is a picture.