Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce. Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce is a creamy cheese sauce and is the perfect fall topper for your favorite pasta! This sauce is made from sweet butternut squash and makes my heart *and tummy* happy. It's cheesy, creamy and the texture is velvety smooth.
The rich, nutty sauce gets cozy fall flavor from sage, thyme, and roasted squash. The first time I made this butternut squash pasta sauce, Jack couldn't stop talking about it for days. The ingredients in this easy butternut squash pasta are simple. To cook Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce you need 13 ingredients and just 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients
- You need 2 of Butternut Squash.
- Prepare of Olive oil.
- You need of Water.
- Prepare 12 oz of box Gluten Free Penne pasta.
- Prepare of Butter.
- Prepare of Chicken broth.
- You need Half of and half.
- It's 1/4 of onion minced.
- You need 2 of large cloves garlic minced.
- You need of Sun dried tomatoes cut up (as many as you like).
- It's of Salt and pepper.
- It's of Cavender's Greek Seasoning.
- You need of Pasta water.
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Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce method
- Heat oven to 400 degrees and cut both squash in half then scoop out the seeds.
- Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Place squash face down on baking tray with about a half a cup of water.
- Roast for 50-60 minutes.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mash squash with a potato masher and turn the heat to LO on the stove top.
- Add chicken broth, half and half, sun dried tomatoes, onion, garlic and Cavender's and continue to stir until desired creaminess.
- 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 !! ππππππππServe immediately and ENJOY!!.
We've served out creamy butternut squash pasta sauce with linguini, but you can experiment with any other pasta you like. Meanwhile, lightly fry the sage leaves in olive oil until crisp. Spiced and creamy (yet cream-less) butternut squash sauce tossed with whole grain linguine. Top with fried sage for a healthy, comforting main In the reserved skillet, combine the pasta, squash purΓ©e and ΒΌ cup cooking liquid. Cook over medium heat, tossing and adding more pasta cooking.