Get Your Pasta Fix With These 4 Healthy Alternatives
Noodle on this, carb lovers: Spaghetti substitutes offer more nutrition in each delicious forkful.
By Johannah Sakimura
Spaghetti Squash
True to its name, baked spaghetti squash easily forks apart into long,
thin strands that offer plenty of nutritional bang for the bite. Three cups
contain only 126 calories—the same amount of spaghett
i packs 663. That three-cup serving also includes about 22 percent of your
recommended daily dietary allowance of vitamin C. A medium squash,
cut in half lengthwise, will roast in 30 minutes to an hour in a
375-degree oven (avoid overcooking, or your al dente
"noodles" will turn to mush). Spaghetti squash holds up
well to heartier rags, like ground-turkey marinara or olivey
puttanesca.
From the October 2014 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine