If you're craving spaghetti and meatballs, these portion-sized nests made in a muffin tin are your guilt-free answer. Drizzled with low-sugar Paleo marinara Plus, unlike regular pasta, spaghetti squash is rich in vitamins C, A, potassium and calcium. One of our favorite comfort food dinners is spaghetti and meatballs.

Ingredients of Spaghetti Squash and Meatballs

  1. It's of Spaghetti Squash.
  2. You need 1 of spaghetti squash.
  3. It's 1 tsp of olive oil.
  4. It's 1/4 tsp of salt.
  5. Prepare 1/4 tsp of coarse ground pepper.
  6. Prepare 1 of your favorite tomato sauce.
  7. Prepare of Meatballs.
  8. You need 1 1/2 lb of lean ground beef.
  9. You need 1 of egg, beaten.
  10. Prepare 3/4 cup of Italian flavored bread crumbs.
  11. It's 1/4 cup of fresh parsley, minced.
  12. You need 1/4 cup of grated parmesan cheese.
  13. It's 1/4 tsp of salt.

Spaghetti Squash and Meatballs step by step

  1. Preheat oven to 450 and start heating up your favorite tomato sauce in a large stock pot over medium heat..
  2. Slice squash in half (lengthwise) and pull out seeds. Rub olive oil, kosher salt and coarse ground pepper all over the flesh side of squash. Place flat side down on a roasting tray and place in oven for 40 minutes until the flesh of the fork is tender. Take out of oven and allow to cool..
  3. While spaghetti squash is baking make the meatballs. Use a bowl big enough to hold and mix all ingredients. Add ground beef to the bowl first, followed by egg and then the rest of the ingredients. Use your hands to mix everything together really well..
  4. Grab a dollop of the meat mixture (approximately 3 tbsp) and roll between your palms until a uniformly round meatball is created. Repeat this until all the meat is made into meatballs. Place all the meatballs one by one into the tomato sauce you have cooking on the stove. Give a gentle stir occasionally so the meatballs don't stick to the bottom of the stock pot. In 20 minutes your meatballs will be cooked through (don't overcook or they will not be as tender and juicy)..
  5. Take your cooked spaghetti squash and scrape out the flesh with a fork. You will see that the squash is stringy, forming "spaghetti noodles" as you scrape. Discard the hard outer shell..
  6. In a bowl serve 1 heaping serving of spaghetti squash followed by a dollop of tomato sauce and 2 meatballs. Sprinkly with pamesan cheese. A great meal to make with the kids! Enjoy!.

Pour the spaghetti sauce on top. Remove the pan of bean meatballs from the oven. In all my other spaghetti squash recipes, I have showed you my quick method of just scraping out the small pieces of spaghetti squash and cooking them up in just ten minutes, but for these vegetarian meatballs with spaghetti squash I went all out and roasted the spaghetti squash and then scooped. You'll microwave a spaghetti squash split in half, and make a simple tomato sauce by heating fresh tomatoes with vinegar and olive oil. Scoop out the strands of sweet squash, place the meatballs on top, cover everything with the sauce and sprinkle on Parmesan to top it all off.

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