I want to make love to this dish. Sweet, sweet love. It’s that good. Trust me, you need to try it.
You don’t have to make love to it, though. That could get weird.
I feel really bad for my duplex neighbors. Their baby won’t stop crying. All day, all night. It just cries. The worst part is the only part of our house that is attached to theirs in my room. Lovely. Thankfully I just LOVE children. Lies. That was a lie.
I hate when you order something online and it can’t seem to get to your house fast enough. So you look out your window every time you hear a truck drive by because you think it’s the delivery truck. And open your door at least 5 times just hoping they secretly dropped off the package without you hearing. I do all of those things. I refuse to believe the tracking number which tells me it won’t arrive for another two days, I just am too optimistic for that bull.
So I recently talked about how I have a hard time drinking lately. And how it puts me in a weird spot when I want to hang out with my friends but all of them are out drinking. Well, I’m still feeling that way. So I’ve been spending more time at home on weekends. Which you’d think would be saving me money, but then I end up buying things to fill my time with. Like last Saturday. All my friends were going out and told me to meet them, but what did I do? I went and bought myself a new down comforter and duvet set. Do you know how expensive that sh*t is? Well, I didn’t. I haven’t gotten a new comforter since I was a freshmen in college. I don’t want to age myself, but that was 7 years ago. Anywho, it’s stupid expensive. I spent $300 and I bought on sale! Sales are straight up bullish*t. It’s just a ploy for you to feel like you’re saving money so you’ll actually buy it. And buy more. And I fell for it.
And after spending at least 3 hours rearranging my room, an hour of which was dedicated to putting my comforter into the duvet, I quickly regretted not going out. I don’t understand comforters. How the hell are they suppose to stay in place in the duvet? I used safety pins but I don’t believe that will do the trick. I was literally hopping on my bed holding the duvet in the air hoping the comforter would just fall into place. Doing stuff on your own is hard sometimes.
Now go make love to this food. Make love to it. Just do it. Don’t get a new duvet cover. Don’t do it.
Buffalo Chicken Pasta
- Yield: 4-5 1x
Ingredients
- 1 large spaghetti squash, cut in half lengthwise
- 2 tablespoons fat (I used duck fat)
- 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cubed
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 sweet onion, finely chopped
- 1 large carrot, finely chopped
- 2 stalks of celery, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup hot sauce (I used Tessamae’s mild or hot wing sauce)
- salt and pepper, to taste
- chopped green onions, to garnish
- sprinkle of red pepper flakes
For the mayo (this will render about 2/3 cup mayo)
- ⅔ cup avocado oil
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon dijon mustard
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 415 degrees
- Place spaghetti squash open side down on a baking sheet. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until skin of squash is slightly soft and the threads of the squash easily come out with a fork
- While spaghetti squash is cooling, place a large pan over medium heat. Once pan is very hot, add fat and chicken to brown with a bit of salt and pepper. Once chicken has browned and no longer pink, remove from pan and place in a bowl
- In that same pan, still over medium heat, add garlic, onion, carrot and celery to the pan to cook. Sprinkle with a bit more salt. Once onion has become translucent, remove from heat.
- Now make the quick mayo. Add all mayo ingredients to a tall container, place an immersion blender to the bottom and turn on. Once the mixture begins to become thicker, slowly pull the immersion blender up the container to make sure mixture mixes completely.
- Now finish the dish off by adding the spaghetti squash threads to the pan, along with chicken, mayo, and hot sauce to the pan. Mix together and sprinkle with a bit more salt and pepper. Garnish with green onions and red pepper flakes..
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I doubled the mayo recipe because I love anything mayo or ranchy. This is so bomb, it’s like unreal!!! One of my favorite recipes ever. I impressed my guests and I felt like a true chef. Thanks Juli.
Can’t wait to try this!! But like someone else asked…where in the world do I find duck fat?? Could something else be substituted?
absolutely! any sort of other fat, like bacon fat or coconut oil, etc. i find mine at a specialty store
Oh…duh, haha! And of course after I read your answer I saw you had posted that to someone else much earlier! Sorry for not seeing it!!
I think next time I make this I’m going to substitute something else for the carrots…I’m just not a huge fan of them in recipes. It was definitely a little spicy (I used Frank’s RedHot as well) and broke down and added a small amount of cream cheese (we’re not strict paleo, more primal) which helped a lot.
My mayo didn’t turn out at all. I don’t have the emulsion blender, so tried the shaker cup + leave it in the fridge method and it didn’t work. Tried a regular hand-held mixer, that didn’t work. It still tasted good, but it was runny and yellow! But OMG…absolutely delicious recipe, can’t wait to try it again!
This is my new favorite recipe. I LOVE it!! I make it exactly how you list it and it’s so good. THANK YOU!!
This is my favorite recipe!! I make it at least once a week!! Thank yooooouuuuuu!! 🙂
This is the best pasta I’ve ever eaten in my life!! I made it for my mom when I was visiting her last month. A week after I left, she was craving it so bad that she HAD to have the recipe! This is a regular dish at our house and not a spoonful of it goes to waste… EVER!
Made this tonight for the second time and OMG – it is, by far, my favorite Paleo dish ever. I could easily live off this and your Fudgy Brownies. Thank you for the amazing recipes and for making my permanent switch back to eating right so dang tasty!
Made this tonight after my trainer has been raving over it…Huge hit – Even the fussy eater at it. I Told her the spaghetti squash was pasta -Lol. everything I’ve tried from your site is awesome!
Best paleo meal ever. Seriously. I made this for a group and EVERYONE loved it! I have made it 3 times since then… I cannot get enough of it! I put off trying to make it for a while because I was intimidated by what looked like a slightly complex/long recipe, but was pleasantly surprised by how easy it actually was. I can’t wait to make it for my family, who are not big spaghetti squash fans for some crazy-ass reason (I swear I must have been adopted because of this reason alone!)!!
I love love your blog, and all your recipes, which means I don’t have any superlatives to describe how much extra I love this recipe. Spaghetti squash is impossible to find in Australia so I use zucchini noodles. Those people asking – it IS possible to make the mayo in a blender. It worked the first time then I failed a couple of times – worked out with help of some Googling to make sure the ingredients are at room temp, blend on the absolute slowest speed with everything except the oil them drizzle the olive oil in as slowly as you can. I used light or even medium olive oil and it is fine. Thanks Juli!