Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce
Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, creamy butternut squash pasta sauce. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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This classic, vegan Roasted Butternut Squash Sauce with sage is a delicious accompaniment to your favorite pasta! It's healthy, surprisingly easy to make and need I say absolutely delicious! We've served out creamy butternut squash pasta sauce with linguini, but you can experiment with any other pasta you like.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have creamy butternut squash pasta sauce using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce:
  1. Take 2 Butternut Squash
  2. Take Olive oil
  3. Prepare Water
  4. Make ready 12 oz box Gluten Free Penne pasta
  5. Prepare Butter
  6. Get Chicken broth
  7. Prepare Half and half
  8. Take 1/4 onion minced
  9. Prepare 2 large cloves garlic minced
  10. Take Sun dried tomatoes cut up (as many as you like)
  11. Prepare Salt and pepper
  12. Make ready Cavender's Greek Seasoning
  13. Take Pasta water

Bon Appetit's recipe called for pancetta and chicken broth, but I knew I could easily make it vegetarian and. My butternut squash pasta sauce relies on a nut or dairy fat to help balance the starch, creating a creamy, almost cheese-like texture that is marked with a hint of the squash's sweetness. I gave the option of including cashew, almond or dairy to allow for different preferences. Butternut squash is a true favorite of many, and it makes good sense.

Instructions to make Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce:
  1. Heat oven to 400 degrees and cut both squash in half then scoop out the seeds
  2. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper
  3. Place squash face down on baking tray with about a half a cup of water
  4. Roast for 50-60 minutes
  5. Take out oven and cool for 10 minutes then turn over and scoop out roasted squash and place into a pot on the stove with some butter
  6. Meanwhile boil your pasta in another pot (save one cup of the pasta water) and saute the onion and garlic and cut up your sun dried tomatoes
  7. Mash squash with a potato masher and turn the heat to LO on the stove top
  8. Add chicken broth, half and half, sun dried tomatoes, onion, garlic and Cavender's and continue to stir until desired creaminess
  9. When pasta is done, drain and add to the squash mixture. Add some pasta water to make it stick to the penne.Turn off heat and place top on the pot to let the pasta absorb the sauce !! 💗💗💋😘💗💗😋😋Serve immediately and ENJOY!!

Not only is it a super comforting, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth kind of vegetable, but it's also surprisingly delicious as a pasta sauce! And it's so creamy that additional cream isn't even needed. Butternut squash has a naturally creamy texture when blended, so we have put that to good use. If you don't usually like butternut squash, give this a try as it might just change your mind. You also don't need to drown pasta in sauce, just add a little bit as less is more when it comes to Italian cooking.

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