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.

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    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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    8 Comments


    on Reply

    Do you know the sodium content of this receipe.


      on Reply

      Hi Rosemary - it totally depends on how much salt you added but according to our calculations, it's about 571mg or 22% of your daily value.


    on Reply

    The nutrition information seems off to me......where do you come up with 22 grams of fat?


      on Reply

      Hi there! We re-calculated all the ingredients and revised it to be as accurate as we can. It should be 15g of fat instead of 22. Though depending on what type of red sauce, the size of your chicken breast, butternut squash, etc. it will vary a bit! Sorry about that!


    on Reply

    would I be able to saute the butternut instead of baking? if so, how long would it take in the pan?


      on Reply

      We haven't tried that before, but think it would work. Let us know if you try!


    on Reply

    Red Sauce? Mexican? Italian?????


      on Reply

      We recommend an Italian red sauce such as a marinara!




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