Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, pasta w butternut squash sauce, sausage and spinach. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Butternut squash makes the creamiest sauce, which makes it a healthy, lighter alternative to cream sauces made with heavy cream and butter. Add baby spinach and stir in parmesan cheese and sage. Toss in cooked pasta and sausage and mix until well coated.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have pasta w butternut squash sauce, sausage and spinach using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pasta w butternut squash sauce, sausage and spinach:
- Prepare Half pound Italian sausage
- Get Crushed red pepper flakes
- Prepare Half pound pasta
- Get Trader Joe’s Autumnal Harvest pasta sauce
- Take Parmesan cheese
- Get 1 handful Baby spinach
- Get 2 garlic cloves; minced
We're really "pan roasting" the butternut squash for this dish. Different from the norm with turkey sausage, roasted butternut squash, balsamic vinegar, and sage. I roasted the squash w/ olive oil, sage, a tbls of butter and a bit of chicken stock. We had neither sausage nor balsamic vinegar, but we had chicken breasts and vinaigrette salad.
Instructions to make Pasta w butternut squash sauce, sausage and spinach:
- Start a pot of boiling water. Cook your pasta according to directions on the box. I used fusilli so it can pick up that amazing sauce!
- In a separate pan, cook the sausage, red pepper flakes, and garlic on med high heat until no longer pink. No oil needed. I started with half a tsp of red pepper flakes.
- Don’t forget your pasta!!!!! Keep some pasta water on the side. Leave the pasta in a strainer.
- Add in the pasta sauce to the pan w sausage. Simmer until bubbly.
- Then the spinach.
- Arrange your bowl! Pasta, sauce, top w shredded Parmesan and pepper if ya like! (I love freshly cracked black pepper) Enjoy!
Butternut squash sauce is a healthy, light alternative to cream sauces made with heavy cream and butter. Butternut squash sauce is rich and creamy without the cream. I can see this replacing a lot of the cream based pasta sauces in my repertoire. That and of course it makes sausage fiend OH super happy. While the squash is browning, add pasta to boiling water, and cook to al dente according to package directions.
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