How to Prepare Appetizing Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce

Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce. It's healthy, surprisingly easy to make and need I say absolutely delicious! Top with fried sage for a healthy, comforting main dish. I gave the option of including cashew, almond or dairy to allow for different preferences.

If you want it particularly creamy and velvety which you DO, stir in some parmesan cheese and heavy cream. Drain your pasta and toss in as much sauce as you'd like. The spicy chicken sausage and sage is the perfect compliment, this pasta dish is filling and comforting on a chilly night. You can cook Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce

1. Prepare 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. It's of Butter.
6. Prepare of Chicken broth.
7. Prepare Half of and half.
8. Prepare 1/4 of onion minced.
9. Prepare 2 of large cloves garlic minced.
10. You need of Sun dried tomatoes cut up (as many as you like).
11. You need of Salt and pepper.
12. It's of Cavender's Greek Seasoning.
13. You need of Pasta water.

It just needed to be thinned a bit with water, made savory. It's a smart comfort food option without loaded calories. It's so rich and creamy on it's own. Sweeter in taste and full of.

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!!.

Crispy sage adds a punch of flavour and refined feel to this simple pasta dish. We've used a little olive oil, but if you want to make a more indulgent version you can fry the sage in. To cut through some of the sweetness of the squash I finished this dish with a bit of. It's packed full of roasted veggies and it's so creamy. I like to make this sauce while my kids nap and then all I have to do for dinner is boil some noodles and dish up some fruit for them (For some reason.