Spaghetti Gluten-free Style

I was pretty excited about making this meal, mainly because spaghetti is one of my most favorite dishes to have.  But if you are like me, you hate the way you feel after eating all of that pasta and feeling carbohydrate overloaded.  Lucky us because we have found a solution to the problem!  With a little bit of modification to the recipe, you can have your spaghetti without feeling bloated afterwards.  The key ingredient...spaghetti squash! Use it in place of noodles and it makes for a wonderful treat.  Top it off with gluten-free spaghetti sauce (most premade sauces are gluten-free, but don't forget to check the label) and homemade turkey meatballs and you have a great substitution for an all-time favorite comfort food.

You first want to make your meatballs because they will need time to bake in the oven for around 30 minutes.  Here is the recipe for my homemade turkey meatballs. 

Turkey meatballs
1 lb ground turkey (I used 85/15)
3 slices of crumbled gluten-free bread
2 eggs
1 teaspoon Oregano
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
1/2 cup parmesan schredded cheese
1 small onion chopped

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly spray a shallow-pain to prevent the meatballs from sticking.  Mix all ingredients together and roll into golf-ball size balls.  Place them into a baking dish side by side. Cover with foil and bake for around 30 minutes.

While the meatballs were baking, I started preparing the spaguetti squash.  Here is what spaghetti squash looks like if you have never purchased it before.

To prepare squash, first pierce sides with a fork.  Cut the squash in half and scoop out all of the seeds.



Place the sqaush in a microwave safe dish and microwave on high for about 6 minutes.  Then, let cool it for around 5 minutes.  Next, to produce your "noodles", separate strands of the inside of the squash by running a fork through in the "from stem to stern" direction. This is what you will have when finished!

Finally the last step is to heat up the sauce (microwave or stove), assemble spaghetti and voila!! We have made a delicious gluten-free comfort food!!