So delicious and easy to make, this cheesy chicken spaghetti squash is a great dinner that the whole family will love. Made with shredded chicken and seasoned with Mexican flavors, every bite is so yummy!
Chicken Stuffed Spaghetti Squash
If you are looking to mix up your weeknight dinners, this cheesy chicken spaghetti squash hits all the right notes!
Squash is stuffed with shredded chicken, corn, green salsa and cream cheese for an easy recipe that’s full of bright flavors. It’s one delicious way to get some veggies into your familes’ diets!
Be sure to check out my Buffalo Chicken Zucchini Boats too!
Why You’ll Love this Chicken Spaghetti Squash Recipe:
- Easy: This recipe only requires about 10 minutes of hands on time before it gets baked in the oven.
- Make ahead: This is a great dish for weekly meal prep. It can easily be made ahead of time and reheated.
- So cheesy: The filling of this stuffed spaghetti squash is so creamy, and I’m a sucker for the gooey melted cheese on top!
How to make cheesy chicken spaghetti squash
Be sure to see the recipe card below for full ingredients & instructions!
- Season the squash and bake in the oven.
- Mix together the ingredients for the filling.
- Remove the insides of the squash with a fork
- Mix the squash with the chicken filling.
- Place back in the skins, cover with cheese and broil.
Can you make this ahead of time?
These filled squashes will keep well, covered in the fridge for up to up to 4 days. You can then heat hem through in the oven at 350F to enjoy. I like to make up a couple at a time for an easy dinner later in the week.
What’s the best chicken to use?
This recipe works best with shredded chicken as it’s easy to combine with the rest of the ingredients, when it comes to shredded chicken I perfer breast over thighs.
You can cook a batch of shredded chicken in the Crockpot or Instant Pot, or bake some breasts in the oven and shred with forks.
What do you serve it with?
This cheesy chicken spaghetti squash is a filling meal on it’s own, or you can easily pair it with your favorite sides. Most veggie and potato side dishes will work well, and it’s great with a fresh salad too.
Recipe Tips and Notes
- Bake the spaghetti squash cut side down, this will create steam making the flesh easier to remove.
- You can make this recipe healthier by using low fat cream cheese if you’d like.
This cheesy chicken spaghetti squash is such a delicious dinner and it’s super easy to make with some really tasty ingredients. I know you are going to love it!
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Cheesy Chicken Spaghetti Squash
Ingredients
- 1 Spaghetti squash halved and deseeded
- 2 cups shredded chicken
- 1 cup canned or frozen whole kernel corn drained if canned
- 1 cup green salsa
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 ½ cups colby jack cheese shredded
- 2 Tablespoons cilantro chopped
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°. Spray a 9 x 13 inch pan with non stick spray.
- Salt and pepper the spaghetti squash and place upside down on pan. Place in the oven and bake until tender, approximately 30-40 minutes.
- In a medium bowl, mix chicken, corn, salsa, and cumin together. Heat in the microwave until warm. Remove and add the sour cream.
- Remove from oven and let cool for 10 minutes. Line a large bowl with layered paper towels or a clean dish towel. Using a fork scrape squash from the skin and place in a towel lined bowl. Save the skins to refill.
- Turn on broiler in oven.
- Gather the towel together and squeeze the squash to remove as much moisture as possible. You may need to replace paper towels or kitchen towel and repeat a second time.
- Place spaghetti squash back in bowl. Add the chicken mixture and mix.
- Refill the skins with the spaghetti squash mixture. Cover with cheese and place in pan.
- Place on highest shelf possible under the broiler. Leave under the broiler until cheese is melted.
- Remove and serve.
Notes
- Bake the spaghetti squash cut side down, this will create steam making the flesh easier to remove.
- You can make this recipe healthier by using low fat cream cheese if you’d like.
Robyn Schaiff says
In the summary it means Tuin’s cream cheese in a couple places but there is no cream cheese in the recipe?!?!?
Becky Hardin says
Sorry, that’s a typo, sour cream only!
Christine says
This looks good
Becky Hardin says
I hope you enjoy!
Karen Cox says
In three different spots you say for healthier recipe you may use reduced fat cream cheese, but the recipe ingredients call for sour cream, not cream cheese so just wondering which is correct before I attempt to make this. It sounds delish.
Becky Hardin says
Sour cream is the original ingredient but reduced-fat cream cheese works too!