Friend of Julie: Chicken with Spaghetti Squash

This is one of the easiest recipes you can make and it's even easier if you have leftover spaghetti squash and chicken. Either way, there are only few steps involved in making this dish and no measuring tools involved. I made 1 serving of this with leftovers.

Chicken with Spaghetti Squash. Photo by Theresa.

Chicken with Spaghetti Squash

1. Bake spaghetti squash.
   You can cook the squash whole or cut it in half. If you cut it in half, remove the seeds and center strings and place each half face down on a baking sheet. If you cook it whole, remove the seeds and center strings after the squash is cooked.
2. When squash is cooked, use a fork to scrape the squash into a baking dish.
3. If you don't have cooked chicken, cook or bake it while the squash is baking.
4. Shred the cooked chicken and mix it in with the squash. You should have equal amounts of squash to chicken or less squash than chicken.
5. Add a few shakes of garlic salt.
6. Add a few shakes of black pepper.
7. Add other spices that sound good to you; I kept mine simple.
8. Adding salt is optional; I didn't add any.
9. Add a pat of butter broken into pieces on top, use butter enough butter to suit your needs based on how much chicken and squash you have in the casserole dish.
10. Lightly sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
11. Heat in microwave until the chicken is hot and the butter and Parmesan melt into the squash.*

*If you cooked the chicken and squash at the same time to make this recipe, you may not need to put this dish in the microwave. You can add the spices to the chicken as it's cooking or when you're shredding it, so they blends into the chicken. Mix the hot chicken, spices, and squash, top with butter and Parmesan and enjoy!