Recipe: Butternut Squash Noodles with Chicken and Roasted Red Peppers
Dinner Recipes, Pizza + Pasta Recipes, Vegetable Recipes
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
- Slice off the top of the squash and cut off the bottom (bulbous) part of the squash in order to remove the seeds.
- Peel the squash with a vegetable peeler and chop it in half make it fit in the Spiralizer
- Spiralize! (Follow the directions of your particular vegetable spiralizer.)
Complete the recipe:
- Separate the noodles and put them on a baking tray. Add sliced red pepper to tray as well.
- Drizzle the noodles and red pepper with EVOO and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- 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:
- Low-Calorie Shrimp Alfredo
- Garden Party Vegetable Noodle Salad
- Pesto Summer Squash Pasta
- Beef Stroganoff with Potato Noodles
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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
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Slice off the top of the squash and cut off the bottom (bulbous) part of the squash in order to remove the seeds.
- Peel the squash with a vegetable peeler and chop it in half make it fit in the Spiralizer.
- Spiralize! (Follow the directions of your particular vegetable spiralizer.)
- Separate the noodles and put them on a baking tray.Add sliced red pepper to tray as well.
- Drizzle the noodles and red pepper with EVOO and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Bake for 9-10 minutes.
- 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!
From the kitchen of: Get Healthy U
8 Comments
Rosemary on February 9, 2017 at 12:59 PM
Do you know the sodium content of this receipe.
Chris Freytag on February 10, 2017 at 3:12 PM
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.
nan on October 13, 2016 at 10:15 AM
The nutrition information seems off to me......where do you come up with 22 grams of fat?
Chris Freytag on October 18, 2016 at 9:51 AM
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!
annah on May 1, 2016 at 4:30 PM
would I be able to saute the butternut instead of baking? if so, how long would it take in the pan?
Chris Freytag on May 2, 2016 at 8:56 AM
We haven't tried that before, but think it would work. Let us know if you try!
Mel on February 22, 2016 at 10:13 AM
Red Sauce? Mexican? Italian?????
Chris Freytag on February 22, 2016 at 10:18 AM
We recommend an Italian red sauce such as a marinara!