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Healthy Creative Cooking: Curly Butternut Stuffed Squash

310 Nutrition Jul 07, 2017

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Creative cooking requires a little investment into kitchen appliances. Would you ever consider spiralizing butternut squash and then stuffing it with strips of beef and spaghetti along with green and yellow summer squash?

If you are looking for something appetizing to cook, while equally showing off your culinary skills, try adding these two affordable tools to your cookware.

Two Affordable Creative Cooking Tools

Veggetti: This tool has been around, but I recently decided to try it. You can buy them online through Amazon, from their website, or at home good stores.

Over the 4^th of July weekend, I purchased the Veggetti from Bed, Bath, and Beyond. I love Bed, Bath, and Beyond because of the 20% off coupons that never expire.

Using the Veggetti, I found it to be simple to use and did what it claimed. I really was able to turn summer squash into veggie-spaghetti.

The Veggetti comes in a couple of sizes. There is a larger Veggetti machine that does more of the work for you. I purchased the manual version, which was just under $10.

Pineapple Corer Slicer: Again, I bought this at Bed, Bath and Beyond at the same time that I purchased the Veggetti. If you get a large enough butternut squash, you can spiral it, making it a beautiful and edible dish.

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Creative Cooking: Spiral Your Veggies

Author: Sonyo Estavillo

Recipe type: Dinner

Ingredients

Extra large butternut squash
2 green summer squash
1 yellow summer squash
.5 lb. of thinly sliced beef

Instructions

Spiral veggies with veggetti or a spiral vegetable slicer.
Cut top off butternut squash, then use pineapple corer to spiral out the inside. Cut off any excess skin that wasn't cut off by the spiral slicer.

I chose not to cut the skin off from my butternut squash. Most of the inner core was cut out from the hard outer skin. There was just a small section left that had skin remaining, so I scraped it off with the knife. You can also use a skin remover too and cut the skin off in advance.

Sautéed Spaghetti Veggies

To make your veggies look like more like spaghetti made out of vegetables the cook time do not cook it too well. I chose to cook it well along with the beef.

Sauce

Are you a fan of Trader Joe’s? Do you like soy sauce? Try the new Trader Joe’s Organic Coconut Aminos, it rivals Braggs Liquid Aminos and is a healthier alternative to soy sauce.

Don’t be afraid to shake things up in the kitchen and explore some creative cooking tips.

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25 Comments

Nallely/ tips4chiks
2017-07-07 at 9:02 pm

Looks fun and easy! I really don’t like cooking but I have to eat lol. I have never tried squash before and I have read lots of recipes lately with squash.

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- Sonyo Estavillo
  2017-07-08 at 12:12 pm
  
  It is fun and it was super easy to make. I try not to be picky when it comes to food. Squash is tasty especially butternut squash. 🙂
  
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parentingpatch
2017-07-07 at 9:22 pm

I love finding new squash recipes to try. I never would have thought to include beef along side the squash.

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- Sonyo Estavillo
  2017-07-08 at 12:15 pm
  
  I was trying fo be creative. Beef pairs rather well with squash. Overall, the meal was healthy and I like to add veggies with my protein. 🙂
  
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Emmanuel
2017-07-08 at 12:52 am

I’m salivating. I’d love to eat this 😉 🙂 .

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- Sonyo Estavillo
  2017-07-08 at 12:16 pm
  
  It was tasty. You should try butternut squash with beef strips. 🙂
  
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jasminekeclipse
2017-07-08 at 6:41 am

This looks so yummy! My mother in law has a zucchini “pasta” maker and it’s so awesome! I need one to add to my kitchen!

Jasmine / http://www.jasminekeclipse.com

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- Sonyo Estavillo
  2017-07-08 at 12:21 pm
  
  I know, I wish I would have gotten the machine. I think I’m going to go back to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and get a motorized one. It was more fun than I thought to turn veggies into pasta. A future recipe I think I’ll make is vegetarian pasta. 🙂
  
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Parenting Healthy
2017-07-08 at 8:44 am

I have thought about buying one but wasn’t sure of recipes I might create with it. Great suggestions

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- Sonyo Estavillo
  2017-07-08 at 12:27 pm
  
  Yeah, I’ve seen both the vegetable pasta makers and the pineapple corer. The corer works great and turns food into fun and fancy curls. 🙂
  
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Heather
2017-07-08 at 9:51 am

That looks so cool! I really need to invest in one of those so I can make awesome looking recipes like this.

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- Sonyo Estavillo
  2017-07-08 at 12:29 pm
  
  It is great to make things like this especially when entertaining guests. But the veggie pasta maker is cool if you want to turn veggies into pasta and add pasta sauce. I think it’s one way I can get my daughter to eat more veggies. 🙂
  
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Ipuna Black
2017-07-09 at 2:08 pm

Excellent recipe and video! Looks great!

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- Sonyo Estavillo
  2017-07-09 at 9:19 pm
  
  Thanks, Ipuna cooking is a great way to experiment in the kitchen and eat more at home. It also allows you to cook in a healthy way like using Coconut Amino Acids to your meals. 🙂
  
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Tami (@ThisMomsDelight)
2017-07-10 at 10:49 am

I did not know they made a pineapple corer and slicer. I want one, even if I don’t eat pineapple very often.

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- Sonyo Estavillo
  2017-07-10 at 10:55 am
  
  Yeah, it’s pretty cool. I thought it would be difficult to use, but it works great.
  
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Paula Harer
2017-07-10 at 1:54 pm

I love this because I love my Veggetti and look for any reason to use it. And, I just love to use the word Veggetti!

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- Sonyo Estavillo
  2017-07-10 at 7:25 pm
  
  Yeah, it’s really cool. I enjoyed using it and think that I eventually get the larger Veggetti machine. I think they named the tool properly, it’s quite catchy. 🙂
  
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homemadeforelle
2017-07-10 at 9:11 pm

Looks like a fun week in the kitchen!I I am definitely picking up that sauce at Trader Joes this weekend 🙂

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- Sonyo Estavillo
  2017-07-11 at 11:13 am
  
  Yeah, coconut amino acid. It’s great stuff. I love cooking with it. It’s super versatile and can be added to anything.
  
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Doran Tomoko
2017-07-11 at 1:48 pm

This looks delicious! What a fun way to cut your veggies! Xx-Doran @HauteBeautyGuide

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- Sonyo Estavillo
  2017-07-11 at 3:08 pm
  
  I know I love it! I used to never enjoy cooking, but now I can’t get enough of it! 🙂
  
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MaJoy Eticabla
2017-07-12 at 6:15 am

This is healthy and a great idea, putting twist on squash recipe. I love how the ingredients were cut. I hope I can find a kitchen stuff that will easily do the cutting of different shapes and sizes for me.

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- Sonyo Estavillo
  2017-07-12 at 12:28 pm
  
  I know, I love the way it can make things much more creative in the kitchen. It’s crazy because I never ever used to cook. I hated cooking and now, I have a love for it. 🙂
  
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Neelson Semedu
2017-09-16 at 10:58 am

Great article ! It’s very amazing advice , extremely helpful,
I’m really appreciate thanks for your sharing !!!!!

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