Spaghetti squash may not look like “pasta” at first blush, but I’ll show you how to cook spaghetti squash gluten free pasta so you can enjoy this totally easy, healthy, gluten free pasta substitute in nearly any recipe where traditional flour pasta would be used. And it’s low in carbohydrates and full of nutrients! Just don’t tell your kids that part!
Every autumn I take my kids to a pumpkin farm, sometimes several times. It’s a tradition that I love because nothing beats being outside in October, and as a mother, I do periodically try to share some deep and meaningful life lesson with my children, like, “Look kids, food comes from somewhere other than a grocery store!”.
We pick pumpkins for carving, to be sure (check out these beauties we carved last night — that very sick pumpkin is our 100-pounder we picked up a couple weeks ago … thinking about drying some of those seeds and planting them next year!), but we also pick fresh apples, squash, and this year, pumpkins for baking! 
We have lots of fun finding the most unusual squash, making faces out of mini pumpkins using a food dehydrator, and generally creating something from our experience. I have found that my kids are far more likely to try a new food if they grew it themselves — or at least had something to do with picking it out — so my daring food adventure with them this time was spaghetti squash!
I’m happy to report that making spaghetti squash as gluten free pasta is super easy, too. I’ll show you how to cook it below.
The first time my son tasted it, he actually questioned why this squash tasted so very much like regular pasta, and why humans hadn’t devised such a brilliant food. “God is smart,” he said.
Indeed.
How to Cook Spaghetti Squash Gluten Free Pasta
Spaghetti squash may not look like pasta at first blush, it makes an easy, healthy, gluten free pasta you can use in nearly any noodle recipe.
Ingredients
- 1-2 medium spaghetti squash
Instructions
Pick your squash, cut it in half and remove strings and seeds. Wrap cut side of each in foil. Lay each half, cut side-down, on a baking sheet with enough water to cover the surface of the baking sheet.
Bake in an oven preheated to 375 F for 30 minutes, or until fork tender (cook time will vary depending on the size of your squash). The skin will start to bubble a bit when it is totally done. Remove from the oven and allow to sit until it is cool enough to handle.
Comb through the open sides of the cooked squash from top to bottom with a fork, creating lengths of “noodles.” Serve warm with your favorite pasta sauce or use in noodle dishes like Pad Thai!
PS- if today’s World Pasta Day has you hankering for a more traditional noodle, try my easy homemade ravioli recipe!
I would definitely try this healthy spaghetti squash recipe. Thanks for sharing it.
Edmund
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Edmund, you definitely should! It’s remarkably easy, super healthy and complements any sauce. Enjoy!
Roasting spaghetti squash sounds much better than using the microwave. I had done it successfully prior to trying to convince my sister that it was easy to do that way. Well, evidently it wasn’t pierced well enough and blew up! We spent a long time picking squash off everything in range….haven’t made it since but will maybe try your way!
Ugh – that doesn’t sound fun! Definitely try again this way … no splatters – guaranteed!