Cooking Experiments- Paleo- Chicken "Spaghetti" Squash

So I have been hearing on and off about the Paleo diet for awhile now. I knew a few people on the diet and then my favorite coupon blogger took up the diet and she keeps posting wonderful recipes that have made me want to give it a go. So look forward to my review on many Paleo recipes and maybe i'll even make some of my own. Last night I made chicken spaghetti but with spaghetti squash instead of noodles. Some stuff I used might not be fully Paleo so substitute as needed. It was sooooooo good. This is my own recipe I have tweaked over several times of trying to make this wonderful dish. Here is what I came up with that was AMAZING last night for dinner:

Ingredients:

1 spaghetti squash
1 bell pepper
1/2 a small white onion
1 can Hunts diced tomatoes with basil, garlic, and oregano
4 cloves of garlic
1 tablespoon of butter (I love land o lakes with olive oil)
2 chicken breasts (smallers ones, mine were around 5 ounces)
1 jar spaghetti sauce (I used Ragu with tomato, onion, and garlic)

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 350.

Cut spaghetti squash in half and scoop out the "guts". Lay cut side down and fill the pan half full with hot water. Bake for 40 minutes or until tender.

While the squash is baking put your chicken breast in a medium sized saucepan and boil in water till done (time will vary on this step due to size of chicken breast and if you are cooking from fresh or frozen, breasts will be done when the middle is no longer pink.)

In a medium sized sauce pan put chopped onion, green peppers, and garlic in with the butter and let them cook. I usually cook them till they're translucent but if you prefer you can cook them till browned.

After the pepper mixture is cooked to your preference add in the Hunts diced tomatoes, strain them first though or your sauce will be to runny.

Let the tomatoes simmer with the pepper mixture until some of the moisture is gone and the flavor has muddled together well, about 5 minutes or so.

Add in spaghetti sauce to mixture and heat together for another 5 minutes.

By now your chicken breast should be done broiling, cut or shred the chicken breast and add that to the spaghetti sauce and let that simmer together until your squash is done. You'll notice after you broil your chicken it can have a gamey scent to it but letting it simmer in the sauce will get rid of that, don't panic!

Remove spaghetti squash from oven and allow to cool, if you need to hurry hold the bottom with an oven mitt while you rake oven the cut part of the squash with a fork. It will break up into beautiful angel hair like noodles.

Serve the "noodles" warm and scoop desired amount of sauce over the top. My fiancee LOVED this dish and we served some Onion poppy seed ciabatta bread on the side. I realize that is not Paleo but hey I am human and like bread and i'm working on it, so there.

I hope you liked this recipe as much as my family did. Tonight I am making cauliflower pizza crust, I am so excited because my daughter is a pizza fanatic so I am looking for a healthier alternative for her. FINGERS CROSSED!