Spaghetti Squash with Capers, Tomatoes and Watercress

This is a truly delicious recipe. It requires minimal chopping and cooking. The bitter greens are perfectly offset by the sweetness of the squash and the salt of the capers creates a lovely balance for your palate.  Also, it heats up very well the next day and even tastes good at room temperature.

From the book – Clean Start – Terry Walters ~ See link below recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 Spaghetti Squash
• 1/2 yellow onion, diced
• 4 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 2 tablespoons capers
• 1 1/2 cups chopped tomatoes with their juices
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh oregano
• 1 bunch watercress
• Sea salt and freshly ground pepper

 

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

• Halve squash, scoop out the seeds and place facedown in a roasting dish.
• Add enough water to cover bottom of dish by about 1/2 inch and roast until soft (about 40 minutes depending on size of squash)
• Remove from oven and set aside.
• Reduce oven temperature to 250 degrees.
• When squash is cool enough to touch, hold over ovenproof serving dish and use tines of fork to scrape out flesh from top to bottom.
• Cover with foil and place in oven to keep hot.
• In large skillet over medium heat, saute onion and garlic in olive oil 3-5 minutes or until soft.
• Add capers, tomatoes and oregano and saute 2 minutes.
• Fold in watercress and allow to wilt (about 30 seconds).
• Remove from heat, season to taste with salt and pepper and serve over spaghetti squash.

Serves 6

 

Notes:

I doubled the sauce the second time I made this recipe because I didn’t feel there was enough sauce. The sauce is delicious,  so yummy you will want a little extra.

There is a very prevalent taste of oregano- if you think that may not sit well with your taste buds you may want to reduce the oregano a bit.

It doesn’t specify how to clean or cut up watercress.  I don’t like the long stems so I did trim them and I chopped up the leaves a bit.

I prepared the sauce while it was in the oven so when it came out I did not have to put it back in the oven to keep warm.

 

Clean Start~ Terry Walters