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Baked Spaghetti Squash with Mushrooms

and Eggplant Sauce

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Dinner

Dinner

This is an utmost delicious dinner that is easy to prepare.

Served

Baked spaghetti squash and eggplant both harvested at the CSA farm offer a not expected rich and tasty combination. Each combined with either with mushrooms and nutritional yeast or with green tomatoes and parsley made this dinner an absolute must-try.

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Get in Advance:

 

1 spaghetti squash

1 eggplant

3 green tomatoes

½ cup of low-salt low-fat vegetable broth

3 garlic clove, minced (1 tablespoon)

½ cup of parsley, chopped

1 table spoon of cumin

½ of a ¼ teaspoon white pepper

½ lb of sliced mushrooms

½ cup of nutritional yeast

 

Have On Hand:

 

Ingredients

Recipe

(Modified to Esselstyn diet from What Do You Do With This Stuff, Walter Greist, Mill River Valley Gardens CSA, North Haven, CT, 1998. Cook Books by Morris Press, pp 41, 42)

 

For 3-Portions. Prep time 60 min.

 

Preheat oven to 400 degree F

Bake the Spaghetti Squash

Wash and cut the squash in half length wise

Remove seeds with spoon

Place on baking sheet face down into the preheated oven

Bake for 45 min at 400 degree F

 

While squash is baking

Prepare Eggplant Sauce

Prepare the ingredients:

Peel eggplant and cut into small cubes

Cube green tomatoes

Mince garlic

In sauce pot sauté eggplant in ¼ cup of vegetable broth for 5 min

Add tomatoes and garlic and sauté for another 10 min

Add parsley and pepper, mix and set aside.

Prepare Mushrooms

In another sauce pan, sauté mushrooms in ¼ cup of vegetable broth for 5-10 min until soften.

 

When squash is done

Make “Spaghetti”

Pull with a fork strands of squash from baked squash and gather in a serving bowl

Mix carefully with mushrooms and nutritional yeast

Place hot eggplant sauce in another serving bowl.

 

Ready to Serve

Serve hot

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Ready for preparing the vegies

 

Seeded half of spaghetti squash

 

Prepared halfs of spaghetti squash eady to be backed for 45 minutes at 400 degree F

 

 

Chopping peeled eggplants

Chopping the green tomatoes

Ready to sauté mushrooms and eggplant

Green tomatoes and garlic added to sautéed eggplant

Prepared eggplant sauce

Sauteed mushrooms

Baked spaghetti squash

Forking out the “spaghetti”

Emptied half of squash

 

Prepared “spaghetti” with mushrooms and nutritional yeast

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Prepared

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