Pellet Smoker Cooking: Italian Sausage Sauce over Spaghetti Squash

Feb 08 2017

Tonight’s supper was tasty and pretty easy to make. We both like spaghetti squash, my favorite is just as a side with butter & garlic salt. The wife likes it with spaghetti sauce over it so I make it that way for her once in a while. You can make this in a bout 1 ½ hours.

The squash is hard shelled and hard to cut raw. I usually nuke it in the microwave 4 to 5 min. to soften and then cut in half. My small one tonight had a bad spot I had to cut out and was able then to cut in half. Some people cook them whole but I like to get the seeds & gook out of the center before cooking. I season them with some garlic salt and then place on a foil lined cookie sheet with a pat of butter under. I bake them at 350 deg. for one hour.

For the sauce I use ground chuck or Italian sausage or brats. Tonight I had 4 Italian brats from my butcher. I removed it from the casings and browned it up and then add in chopped onion, green peppers and garlic. I let that simmer about 5 minutes and then add in the sauce let simmer 15 to 20 minutes. My sauce tonight was Classico’s 4 cheeses. You can use any sauce you want or make your own. I usually rely on Classico or Newman’s Own for my sauces rather than make my own.

For a side I sautéed some sliced fennel, onions and garlic. I should have waited to near the end to add the garlic since I burnt it. It still tasted good.

I served the meat sauce over the squash, topped with some mozzarella and melted some under the broiler. We had toasted English muffins with it. Sorry I missed a shot of the finished sauce in the skillet.

Note: You can use the half squashes to serve from too. Just spoon the spaghetti sauce in the center of the squash.

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