Greek-inspired spaghetti squash

I'm back again with another Greek-inspired dish. I've been meaning to try out a spaghetti squash recipe for a while now, and since I'm still in my Greek salad obsessed stage, I decided to put two and two together!

Ingredients (makes about 4 servings)

- 1 spaghetti squash

Mix-ins

- 1 cup tomatoes

- 3/4 cup cucumber

- 1/4 cup red onion

- 2 oz. goat cheese

- 1/2 cup olives (I used green olives cuz that's just what I have!)

Dressing:

- 2 tbsp. olive oil

- lemon juice from 1 medium sized lemon

- 1 tsp. Greek seasoning (I used Penzey's)

- 2 cloves minced garlic

How to make it

- preheat oven to 375 F

- poke holes all the way around the center of the spaghetti squash lengthwise

- microwave for 5 min (this makes it easier to cut before baking in the oven)

- remove from microwave and let cool before cutting lengthwise along the holes

- once cut, drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper

- bake in the oven at 375 for 40 minutes

- while baking, cut tomatoes and cucumbers into quarters and slice the red onion

- to make the dressing, combine olive oil, lemon juice, Greek seasoning, and minced garlic

- once spaghetti squash is done baking, remove from oven and let cool

- once it has cooled, shred the squash using a fork and toss into a medium bowl

- in the bowl combine the squash, goat cheese, tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, and olives and mix until combined

- drizzle with the dressing and mix once more

- enjoy!

Finished product

Variations

I absolutely loved the way this turned out, and I am excited to try out variations of this. I might try out an Italian inspired recipe and trade out the Greek seasoning for Italian seasoning, the goat cheese for parmesan, and add in some green peppers. I am also thinking about trying out a spaghetti squash lo mein recipe... yum! I just might have to blog that recipe, too.

All in all

Will my Greek salad obsessed phase ever end? The world may never know... it might just continue until I actually go try real Greek food this summer during my travels to Europe!! Let me know if you try out this recipe, or if you have any other fav spaghetti squash recipes. I suppose I will quit procrastinating and go do some homework now... Thx for reading :-)