Recipe - Spaghetti Squash with Gochujang Cream Sauce

I've been meaning to write this one up! This has been a falltime favorite at my household, and yea, it's some good shit. The failure of most spaghetti squash recipes in my opinion is ignoring the squash part and trying to make it work with standard spaghetti flavors, but this plays well with the squash part, and I think it's better with spaghetti squash than with spaghetti.

Ingredients

- Spaghetti squash

- Chopped Kale

- 1 or 2 tbsp Gochujang

- 1/2 lb bacon

- 2 1/2 cup milk

- 1/2 tbsp flour

- 4 cloves garlic

- Olive oil

- Shredded mozzarella cheese

- Grated parmesan (to taste)

- Black pepper (to taste)

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees fahrenheit.

Cut the ends off, then chop squash into 4 rounds of equal volume. Clean out the centers of the rounds. (Optionally you can save and roast the seeds, you can sprinkle a few on top of the finished dish for crunch!) Lay out onto a baking sheet with parchment paper and brush with olive oil before putting into the oven for 40 minutes or until a fork pierces without effort.

While the squash is cooking, prep the sauce. Chop bacon into confetti, saute in a large pan on low until rendered. Chop the kale and garlic finely and cook them in the rendered fat. Add in the gochujang and let it toast in the fat and mingle with the other ingredience. Once cooked, sprinkle in the flour and cook until raw flour smell is gone. Stream in milk while stirring to incorporate. Simmer until thickened, and add in parmesan until salted enough and black pepper until peppered enough.

Remove the squash rounds from the oven and shred them into spaghetti with a fork. Mix in most of the sauce (saving some for the end) along with some mozzarella into each round. Top with parmesan and mozzarella and put back into the oven until melted. Once done, top with the rest of the sauce. Serve each round on a plate, the squash skin acts as a little bowl. I don't think one round is quite enough for a meal, so serve it with garlic bread and/or a salad or something idk