Recipe: Butternut Squash Noodles with Chicken and Roasted Red Peppers

Dinner Recipes, Pizza + Pasta Recipes, Vegetable Recipes

By: Chris Freytag, CPT


If you’ve never tried vegetable noodles, you’re about to be hooked. I love to use my Spiral Vegetable Slicer – I use it to make noodles, pizzas, and casseroles galore with all sorts of different veggies but this particular butternut squash noodles recipe is one of my absolute favorites.

Butternut squash noodles make a mean plate of pasta. Low-carb and low-calorie, these noodles are an easy and delicious swap for healthier family meals. Make this Italian-inspired recipe tonight and quickly become as obsessed with spiralizing as I am!

This butternut squash noodle recipe combines chicken and roasted red peppers for a delicious meal that feels very satisfying while still being incredibly healthy.



Ingredients For Butternut Squash Noodles with Chicken & Red Pepper

This recipe uses only a handful of ingredients, and even a shortcut of a store-bought marinara sauce. If you prefer to make your own red sauce, of course, you can do that instead.

  • Butternut squash
  • Red pepper
  • Olive oil
  • Salt and pepper
  • Cooked chicken breasts
  • Marinara sauce (homemade or your favorite healthy brand with low to no sugar)
  • Parsley

How To Spiralize Butternut Squash Noodles

  1. Slice off the top of the squash and cut off the bottom (bulbous) part of the squash in order to remove the seeds.
  2. Peel the squash with a vegetable peeler and chop it in half make it fit in the Spiralizer
  3. Spiralize! (Follow the directions of your particular vegetable spiralizer.)

Complete the recipe:

  1. Separate the noodles and put them on a baking tray. Add sliced red pepper to tray as well.
  2. Drizzle the noodles and red pepper with EVOO and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  3. Bake for 9-10 minutes.

Other Delicious Spiralized Recipes

If you love our butternut squash noodles recipe, then you’ll also love some other spiralized favorites:

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Total Time: 20 minutes

Yield: 2 serving(s)

Ingredients

  • 1 butternut squash
  • 1 red pepper, sliced
  • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
  • Salt and pepper, to taste
  • 2 chicken breasts (about 4-6 oz. each), cooked
  • 1 cup marinara sauce (homemade or your favorite healthy brand with low to no sugar)
  • Handful of fresh parsley, chopped

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Slice off the top of the squash and cut off the bottom (bulbous) part of the squash in order to remove the seeds.
  3. Peel the squash with a vegetable peeler and chop it in half make it fit in the Spiralizer.
  4. Spiralize! (Follow the directions of your particular vegetable spiralizer.)
  5. Separate the noodles and put them on a baking tray.Add sliced red pepper to tray as well.
  6. Drizzle the noodles and red pepper with EVOO and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  7. Bake for 9-10 minutes.
  8. Separate the noodles into two plates. Add baked or grilled chicken, ½ cup of warmed red sauce, and a sprinkle of fresh parsley to each plate.

Nutrition Information Per Serving

Calories: 430

Protein: 39 gram(s)

Fat: 15 gram(s)

Carbohydrates: 42 gram(s)

Fiber: 9 gram(s)

Sugar: 7 gram(s)

*I use the Paderno Spiral Vegetable Slicer!

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