Tonight’s recipe “mistake” turned into an amazing dinner! This takes a bit of prep work in the morning, but if you know you’re going to be busy in the afternoon/evening but have time in the morning & you want a great dinner–this is it!
First, you need 4 cups of cooked, shredded chicken (I just pulled this out of my freezer–it’s a great thing to have on hand, but if you don’t have any sitting aside, make some in the morning 
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You’ll also need a big spaghetti squash. I think mine was around 10 lbs. Make a few slits in it and bake it at 350 for about an hour and 15 minutes. You want it to cook a little, but not be soggy.
Then, get your 3 year old and 7 year old to stand on chairs and scrape the “spaghetti” out of the squash and into your crockpot. Seriously, it can be a little difficult, so you will probably need to help (be careful, I poked myself pretty hard with a fork last time! I was bleeding! 
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Ingredients
- 1 spaghetti squash, peeled, deseeded and shredded up
- 1 whole onion, chopped (sweet onions are best!)
- 1 whole kabocha squash (probably about 5 lbs), seeded, de-skinned and chopped into cubes (if you can't find kabocha, butternut, buttercup, delicata, hubbard, sweet dumpling, etc. will do)
- 1 can coconut milk where to buy coconut milk
- 2 cups chicken broth where to buy broth
- 2 tsp sea salt where to buy sea salt
- 1 tsp black pepper where to buy spices
- 2 1/2 to 3 tsp curry powder where to buy spices
- a couple of dashes hot sauce (again, check ingredients!)
- other optional ingredients I thought of: diced carrots, chopped celery
- 4 cups cooked and shredded chicken
- 2 cups frozen peas
- other optional ingredient: frozen green beans. That would be good too!
Method
- Place everything in the crockpot that is listed under "In the morning."
- Set the crockpot on low for 4 to 5 hours.
- Add everything listed under "In the afternoon" to the crockpot.
- Cook on low for another hour or more.
YUM. Oh my goodness. YUM. I think I over-ate because I loved the flavor SO MUCH! This served our family of 6 generously, with leftovers for The Farmer for lunch tomorrow, as well as leftovers for all of the Farm Kids and myself. This would be a great dish to serve to a crowd, or to bring to church potluck, etc. How many other dishes can stretch 4 cups of chicken so far??
If we weren’t on the GAPS Diet, I would serve this with rice. There was leftover sauce (coconut milk + broth + spice) left on the plates at the end, and it seemed sad to see it go to waste. Rice would have soaked it all up quite nicely! Note to self: if I ever serve this to a non-GAPS eating crowd, I will make rice or ask someone else to bring rice.
YUM. Make this! Trust me!
This recipes is linked up at Hearth and Soul Hop and at the Eat More Veggies! Ultimate Recipe Swap and Recipe Swap Thursday at Prairie Story.
