Recipe: Perfect Mike's Spaghetti Squash & Marinara Sauce

Mike's Spaghetti Squash & Marinara Sauce. Mike's latest how to eat vid is a low carb way to get your Italian pasta fix. Spaghetti squash is just like eating pasta.without the guilt. Here Has Mike's Helped You Ever?

Spaghetti squash is a nutritious and delicious oblong seed-bearing variety of winter squash. When spaghetti squash is cooked, its flesh falls away from its fruit in strands or ribbons, resembling. Strands of baked spaghetti squash tossed with feta cheese, onions, tomatoes, olives The flesh of spaghetti squash comes out in long strands, very much resembling the noodles for which it is named. You can have Mike's Spaghetti Squash & Marinara Sauce using 20 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Mike's Spaghetti Squash & Marinara Sauce

1. You need of Spaghetti & Sauce.
2. Prepare 2 can (12 oz) of Each: (1)Hunts Garlic & Herb Spaghetti Sauce And (1) Hunts Traditional Spaghetti Sauce.
3. It's 2 tbsp of Or 1/8 Cup Cabernet Sauvignon Wine.
4. It's 1 can (8 oz) of Pitted Black Olives [halved].
5. You need 1 cup of Celery With Leaves [chopped].
6. Prepare 2 of large Fresh Tomatoes [chopped].
7. You need 1 cup of Fresh Mushrooms [chopped].
8. It's 1/3 cup of Each: Green Onion Tops & White Onions [chopped].
9. You need 1/3 cup of Each: Green - Red - Yellow - Orange Bell Peppers [chopped].
10. Prepare 2 tbsp of Each: Fresh Garlic - Fresh Parsley [chopped] Granulated Sugar.
11. It's 2 tsp of Fresh Coarse Black Pepper.
12. Prepare 1 tsp of Italian Seasoning.
13. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Each: Dried Basil - Oregeno - Red Pepper Flakes.
14. You need 1 pinch of Fennel Seeds.
15. It's 1 of large Bay Leaf.
16. You need 1 of Salt [to taste].
17. It's 2 (3 lb) of Each Spaghetti Squashes [try to find those that can stand upright on their own on one end].
18. It's 1/4 tsp of Baking Soda [optional-to remove any acidity in sauce].
19. It's 1 (8 oz) of Tub: Shredded Parmesan Cheese [garnish].
20. It's 1 Bottle of Dried Parsley [garnish].

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Mike's Spaghetti Squash & Marinara Sauce instructions

1. Add everything in Spaghetti & Sauce section [except for the squash & parmesan cheese] and place in a large pot. Simmer for 1 - 1-1/2 hours..
2. Chef's Note: Add the 1/4 tsp Baking Soda to bubbling sauce if your Marinara has a heavy acidic taste from the tomatoes. Don't be alarmed if your sauce foams up a bit from the Baking Soda and slightly fades in color. It will boil down and out quickly Ave return to normal. Add an additional 1/4 teaspoon if you feel your sauce still needs it..
3. Heat oven to 350° and line a cookie sheet with tinfoil..
4. Cut each Spaghetti Squash evenly in half..
5. Clean out all seeds with a large spoon..
6. Spray each inside with butter spay Pam or regular Pam and sprinkle with Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Italian Seasoning and Black Pepper. Spray again to hold the seasonings on the squash..
7. Place each facedown on tinfoil and place in oven for 45-60 minutes depending upon the size of your squashes. Bake until you can easily glide a knife through the squash..
8. Once fully baked, add a tablesppon of butter or olive oil and gently fork the insides out. Dig deep into the flesh WITHOUT tearing the outer shell. Repeat for each shell..
9. Once all Spaghetti Squash is fully pulled from the sides and the butter is mixed in, add some of your Marinara Sauce [no solids, just juices] to your strands and mix in as well..
10. There are two ways to serve these. One, in the shell and the other, on a plate without the shell. If you decide to serve in the shell, gently and carefully shave off the ends of your squash that cannot stand up on their own once fully baked..
11. Either way, ladle your sauce atop your Spaghetti Squash and serve immediately with Garlic Bread..
12. Garnish with Parmesan Cheese and Fresh or Dried Parsley..
13. Enjoy!.

Season the spaghetti squash with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Spaghetti squash or vegetable spaghetti is a group of cultivars of Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo. They are available in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colours, including ivory, yellow and orange. For more recipe ideas, check out my Spaghetti Squash Lasagna and Pesto Spaghetti Squash Pasta. This would also sub well for pasta in my Simple Vegan Meatballs, Vegan Roasted Red Pepper Pasta.