Recipe: Tasty Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce

Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce. This creamy butternut squash pasta sauce is a healthy hack to make a luxuriously creamy pasta dish that is much lower in calories. Blended cooked squash has such a smooth and velvety texture that. Home » Recipes » Italian » Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce.

Butternut squash gets roasted, puréed, then tossed with Parmesan to make this nutty, creamy pasta sauce Each serving is topped with crispy fried sage leaves, a hint of lemon zest, and toasted walnuts, adding a crunchy contrast to the squash On busy weeknights, feel free to forgo wrestling with a giant squash and use a package of cubed precut squash instead. 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, but if you've ever had butternut squash soup , you'll know. You can have Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce

1. You need 2 of Butternut Squash.
2. You need of Olive oil.
3. Prepare of Water.
4. Prepare 12 oz of box Gluten Free Penne pasta.
5. You need of Butter.
6. Prepare of Chicken broth.
7. It's Half of and half.
8. You need 1/4 of onion minced.
9. Prepare 2 of large cloves garlic minced.
10. Prepare of Sun dried tomatoes cut up (as many as you like).
11. You need of Salt and pepper.
12. Prepare of Cavender's Greek Seasoning.
13. Prepare of Pasta water.

Soon you'll have a silky, smooth, velvety and creamy butternut squash alla vodka pasta sauce. I like to toss this sauce with linguine, but any pasta cut works really well, so use your personal favorite. Toss the pasta with sauce, add plenty of parmesan cheese, and then serve each plate of pasta topped with breadcrumbs. This butternut squash pasta sauce is such an easy way to change up some of your favorite meals!

Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce instructions

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!!.

It's packed full of roasted veggies and it's so creamy. I love a traditional pasta but I also love to try something different every once in a while and this butternut squash sauce was a big hit with the whole family. This nice pasta sauce has no tomato. It relies on cooked butternut squash for sweetness and thickness. An Italian three-cheese blend is melted in at the end.