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Low-Carb Turkey Tetrazinni Recipe

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This tetrazinni is wonderful; everyone who tries it loves it. However, if you have some folks in your family who are going to be unhappy about spaghetti squash, here’s what you do: use half spaghetti squash, half spaghetti. Mix half of the sauce with the turkey. Divide the other half of the sauce, and the un_pureed mushrooms and onions, between 1 1/2 cups spaghetti squash, and 1 1/2 cups cooked spaghetti. Put the spaghetti squash at one end of your casserole dish, and the spaghetti at the other end (it helps to use a rectangular casserole dish!) Then make a groove down the middle of the whole thing, lengthwise, and pour the turkey mixture into the groove. Bake according to the instructions above.

Ingredients

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  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1 small onion, diced
  • 2 4–ounce cans mushrooms, drained
  • 1 cups heavy cream
  • 1 cups half and half
  • 2 teaspoons chicken bouillon concentrate
  • 2 tablespoons dry sherry
  • 3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
  • 1 teaspoon guar or xanthan (optional, but it makes the sauce thicker)
  • 3 cups cooked spaghetti squash, scraped into strings
  • 3 cups diced leftover turkey

Instructions

  1. Over medium heat, melt butter in a heavy skillet, and start the onions and the mushrooms sauteing in it.
  2. While that’s cooking, combine the cream, the half and half, bouillon concentrate, sherry, and guar, if you’re using it, in a blender, and blend it for just ten seconds or so, to combine.
  3. Go back and stir your veggies! When the onion is limp and translucent, transfer half of the vegetables into the blender, add the Parmesan, and blend for another 20 seconds or so, to puree the vegetables.
  4. Combine this cream sauce with the spaghetti squash, the rest of the vegetables, and the turkey, and mix everything well.
  5. Put in a 10 cup casserole that you’ve sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.
  6. Bake uncovered at 400° F for 20 minutes, until bubbly.

Notes

(Reprinted by permission from 500 More Low-Carb Recipes by Dana Carpender, 2004 Fair Winds Press)

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