[bottle sliding] This video is sponsored by
Texas Pete. [quirky music playing throughout video] [bowl sliding] [TVP dropping] [liquid pouring] [board sliding] [knife cutting] [scooping] [knife smashing] [pepper grinding] [lid popping] [blender pulsing] [sizzling] [clap] Have you ever been set up with
a goal that you had no idea you were reaching for until today
years old. Well this is how I was set up. There were always
certain aromas in the house that I would smell and I just
knew something's going down. A party, a holiday, some type of
gathering. My folks didn't even have to share it with me. The
food done gave you up. I could smell it happening. Literally
these network of stampeding scents. When you hit the door,
they're like, come on in baby. Come on. So, anytime I'm
cooking for a crowd, ugh. Talk about pressure because now I
realize those are the cooking goals I've been trying to
reach. So, now I'm in the kitchen getting ready. I'm
doing push ups before I even start. It doesn't help. The
theme for this recipe was elegance, classic, yet
adventurous but bold. The base, very nutritionally dense
spaghetti squash, low in calories, low in carbs. Please
take your time cutting through these squashes or is it squash?
As they do play a little hard to get. It's definitely squash,
right? Maybe squish. Like look at all this squish. You want to
roast these cut side down. The shell is going to act like a
cover and help steam the interior. This is also going to
double as like an enclosure to roast your garlic. Furthermore
starting that aromatherapy not only in the squash but
throughout your home. I like to roast my veggies until there's
like a wee bit of charring happening on the extremities.
With that in mind, it is a really good way to tell the
progression of your squash while it's cooking since it's
going to be cut side down. Crystalization is going to
start happening right around the edges of the shell and if
you happen to have cut like maybe your squash unevenly or
maybe have one squash that's just much larger than the other
but you still put them in the oven at the same time. This is
going to aid in helping you know whether you need to take
one of them out earlier than the other. I know I said this
before but I just have to say it again. I am team sauce to
the point that I will create my own sauce rather than take a
shortcut and have extra time. To help the sauce that we're
going to create here go further, we're using TVP that
you could substitute with like lentil or plant-based crumbles
or even maybe some like mashed tofu. We're also using
seasonings to bring kind of like a smokey flavor to the
sauce party. Almost like it's been reducing for hours and to
spice things up and have that flawless balance of bold flavor
and heat, Texas Pete is the perfect hot sauce to have on
hand for any recipe. I choose a blender to get things started
but if you have like a food processor or immersion blender.
These are also great tools to just get those tomatoes broken
down and getting that sauce going. The blender I use on
pulse as I really like the mouth feel of like a chunkier
sauce on this recipe. One other thing I like to do with this
sauce that just has all heads turning once they taste it is
to incorporate that roasted garlic that we have underneath
the squash right into the sauce. Doesn't matter at all if
you add the roasted garlic into the blend or into the skillet
because at this point, after roasting it, it's going to melt
like butter. Keep in mind, this method requires you to wait for
the squash to be done before you could proceed with the rest
of the recipe but if you have the time with the roasted
garlic and Texas Pete, it is a guaranteed twenty-one
questions. How did you make that sauce? Finish things up,
you're plating the squash with a little fresh basil and you
could also add just a tiny bit of vegan cheese like I did and
I got that nice melt by simply tossing the squash underneath
the boiler for a few minutes or you could check out my recipe
for a vegan cheese sauce that I think would pair nicely with
this dish along with the full ingredients to this recipe at
my website Make It Dairy Free dot com or you can check it out in
the description. Also in the description I'm going to
include a link where you can find out more about Texas Pete
or you can find them at your local grocery retailer. Thank
you so much for tuning in and thank you Texas Pete for
sponsoring this video. Until next time. Believe in good.
Peace.
