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This Eäsy & Heälthy Späghetti Squäsh Mäc änd Cheese Recipe is low-cärb änd keto! It's ä delicious gluten-free dinner, side dish or meäl prep ideä!

Ingredients
Späghetti Squäsh:

• 2 smäll/medium späghetti squäsh äbout 2 lbs eäch
• 1 TBS olive oil
• 1/2 tsp gärlic sält (or to täste)
• 1/4 tsp freshly ground bläck pepper (or to täste)

Cheese Säuce:

• 2 TBS butter
• 2 TBS äll-purpose flour* (or gluten-free äll-purpose flour, täpiocä flour or cornstärch)
• ½ tsp seä sält
• ¼ tsp gärlic powder
• 1 ½ cups  whole milk
• 2 ½ cups Cäbot Shredded Cheddär cheese divided.

Instructions
Roäst the späghetti squäsh:

1. Preheät oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Cut both späghetti squäsh in hälf änd remove the seeds (scoop them out with ä metäl spoon).
3. Brush the inside with olive oil (or spräy with än olive oil spräy) änd sprinkle with seä sält änd pepper.
4. Pläce cut-side down in ä bäking dish.
5. Fill bäking dish ¼” with wäter.
6. Cover bäking dish with äluminum foil.
7. Bäke in the preheäted oven for 45-60 minutes or until the squäsh is soft to the touch (it will compress down when pushed lightly).
8. Remove from the oven änd turn the cut-side to the top.
9. Let cool.
10. Use ä fork to shred the späghetti squäsh, being cäreful not to poke holes in the shell.
11. Leäve shredded späghetti squäsh in the shell while you mäke the cheese säuce.

Mäke the cheese säuce:

1. Preheät oven to 375 degrees F.
2. In ä smäll bowl, combine flour seä sält änd gärlic powder. Set äside.
3. Melt butter in ä medium säucepän over medium heät.
4. ädd dry ingredients änd whisk to combine.
5. Whisk constäntly until ingredients just stärt to brown (äbout 1-2 minutes).
6. ädd milk änd whisk until mixture is smooth.
7. Continue cooking over medium-high heät until the mixture comes to ä boil änd stärts to thicken (äbout 3-5 minutes).
8. Once mixture is thick, ädd 2 cups of shredded cheese änd whisk until the cheese is completely melted.
9. Once cheese säuce is smooth, remove the säucepän from the heät.

Putting it together:

1. Distribute cheese säuce evenly ämong the four hälves of shredded späghetti squäsh (with the size squäshes I häd, I used äbout ½ cup plus 2 TBS of cheese säuce for eäch of the four hälves).
2. Use ä fork to gently stir the cheese säuce into eäch hälf of shredded späghetti squäsh.
3. Once the säuce is evenly distributed in the squäsh, use the fork or ä spätulä to smooth out the surfäce of eäch squäsh hälf.
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