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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Am I supposed to remove the seeds from the spaghetti squash?
I have to admit, I had doubts that a pasta sauce made primarily from mayo (even delicious, delicious homemade mayo) would be as good as the photo makes it look… but this was super delicious! We made it with Frank’s Red Hot, a leftover rotisserie chicken, and Melissa Joulwan’s mayo recipe. Had to serve it on top of the spaghetti squash because my uninitiated boyfriend was eating his on regular pasta, and I’m sure it would be even more amazing all mixed together. Yummmm! Thank you!
Just made this tonight and it was AMAZING!!! Didn’t trust my store bought organic eggs so went ahead and used store-bought mayo, only had about 1/3 of a cup so I just added in some butter too. It was soooooo good. Even my kids enjoyed it. 🙂 Will be in the rotation of meals for sure!!
Wow.
I just made this and I’m not going to lie, I was a bit skeptical that it would be good. But I’ve been going through this whole “thy new things” phase so I decided to give it a shot. Most amazing thing I’ve ever had!
I must say that I was recently diagnosed with MS so had to completely change my diet. With that said I was absolutely dreading it. We discovered your site and with recipes like this I feel like this change won’t be so bad. Thank you and please keep up the great work.
OMG Juli! I made this last night with ground turkey and it was AMAZE BALLS! This totally cured my Whole30 Day 4 cravings. This recipe is a life saver. I can’t wait to make it over and over again!
Wowee Kazowee. This recipe was AMAZING. I didn’t have spaghetti squash on hand, so I cut down the amount of sauce I used. So very delicious. Thank you – I sometimes get a hankering for buffalo chicken and this fit the bill perfectly!
The flavor was good but my spaghetti squash got really mushy on this one. I may try it again with a different base to put it over and see if that helps.
I made this for dinner tonight. Thank you so much for existing on earth! This was soooo DELISH!! I didn’t make love to it, but came close. LOL
5* omGreat!