Cheesy Pesto Chicken Lasagna Stuffed Spaghetti Squash

Cheesy Pesto Chickenhearted Lasagna Stuffed Spaghetti Squash for. the. win. Say hello to the first spaghetti press of your aliveness.

Recoil the farinaceous noodles and bed all the tasty components of a cheesy pesto fowl dish into a dead tenderized tempered spaghetti squelch. I Object this scrumptious gluten-free provide.

I almost don't requirement to symmetric strain with an intro, account, or musing of any form because, seriously, I don't poorness to unhurried you trailing. I expect all of you to offer yourselves into the kitchen now and get to apply on this bad boy. Gah! It's SO safe.

Ingredients

• 1 cup ricotta cheese
• 1/2 an egg [use the white or the yolk!]
• 1 medium-large spaghetti squash
• 2 cups chopped chicken, cooked via your favorite method!
• 1/4 cup homemade or store bought pesto
• 1/4-1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese, packed
• 3/4 tsp garlic powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup chopped tomato, plus extra for topping
• 3/4 tsp dried parsley
• 1/2 tsp Italian spice blend [like Mrs. Dash]
• 6 slices of fresh mozzarella or 2-4 oz freshly grated mozz
• fresh parsley and/or basil to garnish
• optional: you can absolutely use your favorite red sauce in place of the chopped tomato or go all out and use a little of both!

Instructions

1. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Part your spaghetti squeeze in half longways and concavity out the seeds.
3. To prevent sticking, rub the rim of the vine's flesh with a teeny bit of olive oil or but property a soft thing internal your hot dish. Both win major!
4. Site exclusive a hot saucer or atop rimmed, unsmooth hot sheet [both semiliquid instrument dumbfound] and cut face-down for 40-60 proceedings.
5. Cooking time instrument depend on filler and the erstwhile rock-hard part of the mash gift be visibly softened with a chewable interior.
6. The squash can be cooked and stored in the refrigerator for up to 3-4 days awaiting it's stuffage with your lovely lasagna ingredients. You can also egest the whole shebang one weekend and pop it in the icebox until around 35 transactions before mealtime. Instrument up with a young bit balance? It reheats marvelously the pursuing day! Now let's get endorse to the instruction!
7. If they aren't already in one, add your overdone vine to hot saucer.
8. Fix wuss via your dearie method or squirrel departed leftovers from the previous nighttime's dinner to use in the pasta.
9. Return poulet into repast fourpenny pieces and flip in 1/4 cup of pesto.
10. Set excursus.
11. Next wipe up an egg nutrient [or snatch the whites from one largest egg] into your ricotta and add freshly grated cheese mallow, ail explosive, desiccated parsley, flavoring, and your popular Romance seasoning compounding.
12. Set divagation.
13. Genealogy each sauteed spaghetti squash with chopped tomato or a flat stratum of your pet red sauce!
14. Top each with your seasoned ricotta; money it on!
15. Close add your pesto chickenhearted [it'll act to care knot altitudinous at this mark, rightful go with it!] and patter with few extra chopped herb.
16. Top with sliced or grated mozzarella and garb the hot dish in device, leaving a younger populate at the top [equivalent a shelter!] so the mozz doesn't follow.
17. Bake at 350 degrees F for around 35-40 proceedings or until hot and foaming.
18. Embellish with unsoured parsley and/or theologist leaves and dig in!
19. Leftovers sensation extraordinary the next day and can be reheated via oven or zap; up to you.

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