Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special 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 will be really delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to 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 it.
The ingredients needed to make Spaghetti Squash with pesto and chicken:
- Take Spaghetti Squash
- Make ready 1 medium Spaghetti Squash
- Prepare 2 tbsp Olive Oil
- Get 1/2 lb Cooked cubed chicken
- Take 1 medium Red pepper sliced
- Take 4 tbsp Pesto sauce
- Prepare 2 tbsp Pesto paste
- Take 1 pinch salt to taste
- Prepare 1 pinch pepper to taste
- Get 4 tbsp Parmesan cheese
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Steps 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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