Saturday, September 22, 2007

Low-Fat Alternative to Pasta

If you're at all like me, one of the hardest things about maintaining a diet is cutting down on Italian food, especially pasta. What makes pasta fattening is the calories in the noodles, which come from the carbs. Although spaghetti sauce can be fattening, there are alternative ways to cook it. There's only one low-calorie alternative to the noodles, though, and that's spaghetti squash.

Sphagetti squash is a type of squash (obviously) that if you cut in half and carve the insides out gently, they will come out similar to noodles, about the size of angel hair. You get about 5 cups of noodles from one squash. A cup of spaghetti squash is only 42 calories, whereas a cup of regular noodles is over 450 calories. 1 cup of spaghetti squash also only has 10 carbohydrates, whereas a cup of regular noodles is around 106, which is 35% of your daily recommended intake.

The difference in the taste between the two is that spaghetti squash tends to be sweeter, while the textures of both are relatively close. If you have the right sauce, the sweet taste of the squash might add to the taste. I think that sauce with less salt works best when eaten with spaghetti squash.

Preparation

Place spaghetti squash in boiling water and cook 15 minutes. Prick in four places with a fork and continue cooking another 30 minutes.

Remove squash. Let cool for 5 minutes, then cut in half lengthwise and scoop out seeds. Using a fork, pull out the strands of "spaghetti". Add sauce and enjoy!


Serving size: 1 cup
Number of Servings: 5

Calories per serving: 49

Calories per 1 cup of regular spaghetti: 250

Thats a 200 calorie difference!

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