Lasagna Style Spaghetti Squash (low carb, clean eating, low fat, healthy)

Ingredients:

1. 1 spaghetti squash
2. 1 lb ground turkey
3. 2 cups of your favorite pasta sauce (sugar free)
4. 2 tablespoons fresh basil
5. ½ cup low fat ricotta cheese
6. ½ cup shredded reduced fat mozzarella cheese (plus extra for topping)
7. salt & pepper

Roast the squash

• Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees. 
• Wash spaghetti squash, cut off stem and slice squash lengthwise. 
• Scoop out the seeds and gunk. (save the seeds and roast them!)
• Season with salt and pepper, and place in baking dish (9×13 works well) with a little water in the bottom of the dish — as the squash cooks, you can add more water if it dries up. 
• Roast for 45-60 minutes, depending on squash size, or until inside is soft and easily “fluffs” with a fork. It will look like very tiny spaghetti noodles.

While squash is roasting:

• Brown ground turkey in large skillet over medium heat. 
• Remove sausage from the pan drain and set aside.
• Add sauce to the pan and simmer. Add the ground turkey back into the sauce.
• In a bowl, combine the ricotta, mozzarella, and fresh basil, set aside.

When squash is tender:

• Remove from oven and using a fork, scoop, fluff, flake, scrape, whatever you’d like to call it, to get the inside of the squash to look like spaghetti noodles. 
• You don’t have to get at ALL of the squash, you can scoop more later when you get to the bottom after it’s been filled and you’re enjoying it for dinner.

Now we FILL THEM:

• Start with a scoop of the red sauce
• follow with a layer of the cheese mixture, (you can add extra mozzarella on each layer too!) 
• Repeat the layers until you’ve over filled your squash, ending with a layer of red sauce and then topping them with mozzarella. Totally over fill these.

The cook them: 

• Turn the oven to broil and put them back in to brown up the cheesy top. Enjoy