How do you make a house roll? Casa roll. Ok, that was awful but a casserole can be dee-lish! Taking leftovers and turning them into the entree du jour is as easy as telling terrible jokes. Trust me, I know something about both of those subjects.
This casserole takes an Italian dish and turns it Mexican. Would be a lot cooler if turning it Japanese. More bad jokes, why not? Anyway, “jokes” aside Italian can be turned into plenty of different cuisines. All you need to do is fry diced onions in oil and spices, and voila something different. Indian and Mexican are the easiest. When you are cooking the spices make sure you use enough oil so that the spices don’t get clumpy. It’s better to cook it slowly, at a lower heat. Very easy to burn the herbs. I fried onions, and added cumin, ground new mexico chile and smoked super hot mystery peppers that a friend gave to me, cayenne would have been fine. Or leave out the heat, do whatever you want, rules suck.
That’s all I got, you can only write so much about a leftovers dish……
Ingredients
- Half a Cooked Spaghetti Squash
- 3 or 4 Medium Sized Meatballs
- 1/4 Cup Shredded Pepper Jack Cheese
- 1/2 Cup Chicken Stock
- 1/2 Small Onion Diced
- 1 Tablespoon Ancho Chile or New Mexico Chile Powder (regular chilli powder is fine, skip the cuman if you use this)
- 1 1/2 Teaspoons of Fresh Ground Cumin (if you use already ground, use 1 tablespoon)
- 1/4 Teaspoon Hot Pepper Powder Such as Cayenne
- 1/4 Teaspoon Oregano
- Olive Oil
Instructions
- Dice the onion and meatballs
- Put onion in pan at a medium heat with enough olive oil to coat the bottom of the pan
- Cook onions till almost translucent, and then put in all spices
- Cook lightly until the spices are dissolved
- Add the meatballs and the chicken stock
- Reduce the stock by half
- Add the spaghetti squash into the pan and let everything get to know each other
- Put everything into a small high sided oven proof pan and top with the cheese
- Bake at 400 for 30 minutes or until the cheese is browned
- Let cool for 15-20 minutes and EAT!
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