Bring on all the tasty winter dishes! Curry, soups, stews! This includes my Easy Thai Spaghettic Squash.
Have you ever tried spaghetti squash??
I love how it can be shredded into noodles- I’ve used it with sauce and pasta and Parmesan (which pairs great with my Chicken Parmesan Meatballs). It’s a great easy weeknight dinner. This recipe is a bit more involved but just as delicious. Plus it makes a ton so it’s great to make at the beginning of the week and eat the leftovers all week long.
Do you like Asian inspired food?
I don’t cook a ton of Asian based dishes without using pre-made sauces. It’s just not something I’m great at creating so using a jarred sauce ensures it’s tasty. But since my husband is a HUGE Asian food lover I’m trying to branch out of my comfort zone with more Thai recipes lately. Check out the Thai Coconut Pumpkin soup I posted a few weeks ago and this vegan curry bowl from last year.
What is Pad Thai?
Pad Thai is stir-fry dish made with rice noodles, shrimp, chicken, or tofu, peanuts, a scrambled egg and bean sprouts. The ingredients are sautéed together in a wok and tossed in a delicious pad thai sauce. Authentic Thai food isn’t exactly what we consume in the popular Americanized version most of us enjoy today. According to Thai Table, to make an authentic, Thailand-style pad Thai, you need ingredients like Thai rice noodles, bean sprouts, banana flowers, Chinese chives, tamarind paste, preserved turnips, tofu, fish sauce, shrimp, and garlic — to name a few.
Easy Thai Spaghetti Squash
Ingredients
- 1 spaghetti squash
- 1 large white onion
- 3 heads bok choy
- 2 bell peppers
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 lb ground chicken
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 3 TBSP red wine vinegar
- 2 TBSP sesame oil
- 3 TBSP soy sauce
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1 tsp honey
- 1 tsp ginger
- Scallions
- Peanut or almonds
Instructions
- Roast spaghetti squash at 400 degrees for 45 minutes
- While roasting, cook ground chicken
- Finely dice garlic
- Julienne red peppers and onion
- Trim the bottom inch from the head of bok choy and cut the leafy green portion away from either side of the white stalk
- Saute garlic and onions for a few minutes
- Add red peppers and bok choy
- Make sauce by combining chicken broth, lime juice, vinegar, oil, soy sauce, peanut butter, red pepper flakes, honey, and ginger
- Once cooked shred spaghetti squash with a fork
- Combine squash, veggies, and sauce
- Top with scallions and nuts
Let me know if you try making this Thai Spaghetti Squash! I love seeing you tag me in your creations on Instagram.
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