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Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and French Onion Cream Sauce

October 13, 2014 By Tekesha 8 Comments

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and French Onion Cream Sauce

I think it’s time we come together as a nation, as a people, as ONE… and stop telling the lie that spaghetti squash tastes like spaghetti. It has many a good quality, but tastingย like pasta is not one of them. Let’s own that. ๐Ÿ™‚

Spaghetti squash tastes very faintly like a mix of yellow summer squash and butternut squash. Other than that, the most memorable thing about spaghetti squash is that it feels like angel hair spaghetti in your mouth because of the strands. It doesn’t taste like it, it just feels like it. In any event, the star of this particular dish is THE SAUCE.

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and French Onion Cream Sauce

This sauce is probably the best thing I have ever come up with. If you are throwing carbohydrate caution to the wind, make this sauce and pour it over buttered egg noodles. Or dip crusty pieces of a baguette into it. Or drown a salted baked sweet potato with it.

First, I’m going to show you how to roast spaghetti squash, and then we’ll get to the amazing sauce.

Gather up:

  • 1 medium spaghetti squash
  • 1 lb ground mild italian sausage
  • 4 oz chive and onion cream cheese
  • 4 oz sour cream
  • 1/2 cup white wine
  • 1 clove of garlic, minced
  • 1/2 shallot, minced
  • 1/2 red hot chili pepper, minced
  • 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1 tsp dried dill
  • 1 tsp beau monde seasoning
  • Olive oil
  • Salt and Pepper

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.

Put your spaghetti squash on a cutting board…

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and French Onion Cream Sauce

and cut off the ends with a sharp knife.

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and French Onion Cream Sauce

Stand it up and slice it in half length-wise. Scrape out all the seeds with a spoon.

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and French Onion Cream Sauce

Place spaghetti squash on a foil-lined baking sheet and drizzle with olive oil, ย salt and pepper.

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and French Onion Cream Sauce

Turn the squash flesh side down and pierce the skin with a knife a few times.

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and French Onion Cream Sauce

Roast in the oven, flesh side down, for approximately 35-40 minutes, until flesh is easily pierced with a fork. Remove from oven and let cool.

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and French Onion Cream Sauce

Cut up your clove of garlic, shallot and red hot chili pepper.

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and French Onion Cream Sauce

Add them to a skillet with the italian sausage…

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and French Onion Cream Sauce

and cook on medium heat until the sausage is mostly cooked through, breaking the sausage into chunks with a wooden spoon as it cooks (approximately 10 minutes). It doesn’t need to be cooked all the way because it will continue cooking in the sauce. Be careful not to burn the garlic. If any of your garlic starts burning, turn down your heat immediately and remove any burnt garlic from the pan.

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and French Onion Cream Sauce

Add cream cheese, sour cream, white wine, nutmeg, dill and beau monde seasoning to the pan with the italian sausage.

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and French Onion Cream Sauce

Cook on medium low heat until all ingredients are well-combined and sauce has a smooth consistency, approximately 10 minutes.

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and French Onion Cream Sauce

Using a fork, scrape the flesh of the spaghetti squash so that it forms thin strings that look like pasta.

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and French Onion Cream Sauce

Place some spaghetti squash on a plate and cover with a spoonful of creamy meat sauce.

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and French Onion Cream Sauce

Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Italian Sausage and French Onion Cream Sauce
 
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Prep time
2 mins
Cook time
40 mins
Total time
42 mins
 
Roasted spaghetti squash and crumbled italian sausage bites with creamy, decadent french onion flavored sauce.
Author: Tekesha @ EatMoreFoodProject
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • 1 medium spaghetti squash
  • 1 lb ground mild italian sausage
  • 4 oz chive and onion cream cheese
  • 4 oz sour cream
  • ½ cup white wine
  • 1 clove of garlic, minced
  • ½ shallot, minced
  • ½ red hot chili pepper, minced
  • ½ tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1 tsp dried dill
  • 1 tsp beau monde seasoning
  • Olive oil
  • Salt and Pepper
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Put your spaghetti squash on a cutting board and cut off the ends with a sharp knife.
  3. Stand it up and slice it in half length-wise.
  4. Scrape out all the seeds with a spoon.
  5. Place spaghetti squash on a foil-lined baking sheet and drizzle with olive oil, salt and pepper.
  6. Turn the squash flesh side down and pierce the skin with a knife a few times.
  7. Roast in the oven, flesh side down, for approximately 35-40 minutes, until flesh is easily pierced with a fork.
  8. Remove from oven and let cool.
  9. Cut up your shallot, red hot chili pepper, and clove of garlic.
  10. Add them to a skillet with the italian sausage and cook on medium heat until the sausage is mostly cooked through, breaking the sausage into chunks with a wooden spoon as it cooks (approximately 10 minutes). It doesn't need to be cooked all the way because it will continue cooking in the sauce. Be careful not to burn the garlic. If any of your garlic starts burning, turn down your heat immediately and remove any burnt garlic from the pan.
  11. Add cream cheese, sour cream, white wine, nutmeg, dill and beau monde seasoning to the pan with the italian sausage.
  12. Cook on medium low heat until all ingredients are well-combined and sauce has a smooth consistency, approximately 10 minutes.
  13. Using a fork, scrape the flesh of the spaghetti squash so that it forms thin strings that look like pasta.
  14. Place some spaghetti squash on a plate and cover with a spoonful of creamy meat sauce.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 406 Fat: 23 Carbohydrates: 6 Sugar: 3 Sodium: 620 Protein: 18
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Comments

  1. Martina says

    October 13, 2014 at 9:48 AM

    Oh I wish I could find spaghetti squash in the UK! I bought some seeds online though and I’m growing my own ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
    • Tekesha says

      October 13, 2014 at 9:50 AM

      That’s so exciting! I had no idea it wasn’t available in the UK. I will keep an eye out for spaghetti squash posts on your blog, ha ha ha ๐Ÿ˜€

      Reply
  2. Traci says

    October 14, 2014 at 11:30 AM

    I agree, spaghetti squash only FEELS like angelhair spaghetti, but definitely doesn’t taste like it! It isn’t really a replacement, but I love it, and this version is so unique. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Tekesha says

      October 14, 2014 at 11:40 AM

      Thanks, Traci! ๐Ÿ˜€

      Reply
  3. Andrea @ Cooking with Mamma C says

    October 16, 2014 at 7:18 PM

    I can only imagine how delicious this tastes! You can make this for me when I come over with the fried zucchini. ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
    • Tekesha says

      October 16, 2014 at 8:12 PM

      Ha ha ha!! Deal! ๐Ÿ˜€

      Reply
  4. Danrex says

    October 18, 2014 at 5:25 PM

    Yum. Followed

    Reply
    • Tekesha says

      October 18, 2014 at 9:33 PM

      Thank you!! ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply

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