PaleOMG Pizza Spaghetti Pie

If you know me or just read here or follow my IG you know I am the ultimate Pizza Slut. I love me some pizza. All kinds, even the bad frozen stuff doesn't phase me. I'll eat it. And I have been, all summer long actually. Sooo I am on a self imposed pizza hiatus for at least the month of August. Actually I am hitting the Whole30 & Paleo hard until my birthday in September because I have been so lax and am feeling a wee bit crappy. 

In honor of that I decided to do some meal prep this week and finally, finally got around to making a recipe that so many rave about.... Almost 5 Ingredient Pizza Spaghetti Pie. It is from my favorite Paleo Cookbook author Juli Bauer who has a new book coming out this month... pre-order it for almost half off now  here... you will not be disappointed! Check out her IG feed too... @paleomg

This is definitely a keeper. I swear it tastes like pizza and spaghetti all in one. I followed the recipe exactly with the addition of some sliced pepperoni on top because I need pepperoni on my pizza. All of the flavors really come together and are the healthiest version of pizza I have had in weeks. Ok, there's no crust but make sure you really bake it well and the top gets a lovely, crispy golden brown. This is definitely going to be a keeper in my rotation. 

Oh yeah, you know how spaghetti squash is a bitch and a half to cut open? Well I read a lot of the reviews for the recipe and someone suggested piercing it a bunch of times with a knife and cooking it whole. Boom... this was genious and worked like a charm. No more almost cutting your hand off trying to get that thing open. Bake, split, let it cool and clean it out and you are ready to casserole! Enjoy! 

Almost 5 Ingredient Pizza Spaghetti Pie

 

Prep time

25 mins

Cook time

1 hour

Total time

1 hour 25 mins

 

Serves: 3-4

Ingredients

• 1 large spaghetti squash (about 600 grams)
• 1 pound italian sausage
• ½ yellow onion, diced
• 1 cup pizza sauce (no sugar added)
• 1 teaspoon dried basil
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 3 eggs, whisked
• (optional: add anything you like with pizza: veggies, basil, even cheese if you do primal)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Cut spaghetti squash in half lengthwise. Place spaghetti squash cut side down on a baking sheet and bake for 20-25 minutes or until the skin of the squash gives when you press on it. Then reduce oven heat to 350 degrees.
3. Once squash is done cooking, remove threads and place in an 8×8 greased baking dish.
4. Place a large pan over medium heat. Add italian sausage and onion. Cook until pink no longer remains in the sausage and it is broken up into pieces.
5. Add pizza sauce, dried basil and salt and pepper to the pan and mix well.
6. Add sausage mixture to the 8×8 dish and mix well with spaghetti squash threads.
7. Lastly, add whisked eggs to the baking dish and mix everything together until you can no longer see the eggs.
8. Place in oven and bake for 1 hour or until the top of the mixture forms a slight crust that doesn’t give when you press on it in the middle of the dish.
9. Let rest for 5 minutes before serving.

Seriously... Yum