Best way to prepare/use spaghetti squash?

[hc18flyer]

I was given a couple of plants this spring and now I have a couple of monsters ready to pick. What is the best way to eat them? Tom

[sharps4590]

You can use them as a pasta replacement, we have and it's good. You can also nuke 'em and do the regular ol' butter, NOT MARGARINE....unless your lactose intolerant.... and brown sugar. That's how we usually eat most squash.

[jdfoxinc]

Cut in half, scoop out seeds. Bake open face down at 400deg.f.till the strands separate. Great both ays mentioned above. Boil the seeds in brine, separate the strands, rost at 250deg.f. for 30 min. Eat as a snack.

[rancher1913]

they will store for over a year at normal room temperature so you dont have to eat them all at once, make sure they are good and yellow and the skin should be hard before you pick them.

poke a few holes with a knife, microwave for 15 to 20 minutes, maybe longer if they are huge. cut open and remove seeds, use fork to scrape the meat out and treat it like spaghetti.

we usually have a pile in our living room all winter, along with butternut squash.

[Misery-Whip]

We cut them in half, not from end to end, but across them. Leave seeds in place cut ends down on parchment paper on a cookie sheet, and bake at 375 for 1.5-2 hours. Remove seeds, scrape into a 9x13 pan, add your spagetti sauce and bake for another 30-45 minutes.


The tomato sauce and the 2nd baking cycle helps tenderize the "noodles" and neutrralizes some of the squash flavor.

We put 2 large, or 3 medium squash on a cookie sheet to feed a family of 4.

[anothernewb]

like as been said. bake em, use em as substitute for pasta. we make basically low carb chicken spaghetti with them. turns out great.

[bakerjw]

We cook them in the crock pot rather than the oven. We love them, especially with Asian style foods. General Tsos sauce with chicken on them...

[William Yanda]

Several good suggestions above. I like lightly buttered, salt and pepper and a little parmesan cheese sprinkled on top.

[gbrown]

We eat them as a veggie side, preparing them like W. Yanda, above. Only difference is adding garlic powder.

[woodbutcher]

[smilie=s: Split length ways and remove seeds.Put cut side down in electric non stick skillet.Add water and simmer till skin can be pierced with a fork.Serve with REAL butter and salt and pepper.
Good stuff.Left over half can be reheated the next day in microwave.Good with just about anything.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[Ozark mike]

Squash moonshine isnt bad. Dad made some back in the day. Everyone liked it. Took quite a bit of squash to make little over a gallon

[Artful]

I cut length wise, remove seeds to dry and replant, put about a table spoon of water in the insides of each half and add spices of your choice (garlic powder, Adobe, etc). Now get your clingy plastic wrap and do all over wrap (usually twice length wise and twice crosswise) then pop half in the microwave for 9-12 min. When the ding goes off and you open it you should see a balloon filled with squash and steam. poke a hole or the plastic will vacuum form to your dinner. Take a fork and scrap out from the hull the spaghetti strands and top with butter and any herbs. Fastest and easiest way to do them I have found.