Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, butternut squash creamy pasta with kale & bacon topping. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Plus, it's unbelievably creamy without actually containing any cream. There's so much to love about this dish, beyond the easy cleanup (but that too). There's plenty of sliced garlic, some butternut squash purée (sweet potato or pumpkin purée work too), and half a can of cannellini beans, infusing.
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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have butternut squash creamy pasta with kale & bacon topping using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Butternut squash creamy pasta with kale & bacon topping:
- Make ready small butternut squash
- Take extra virgin olive oil
- Prepare dry oregano
- Make ready Provence dry herbs
- Take fresh ground black pepper
- Make ready kale, coarsly chopped
- Prepare precooked real bacon bits or bacon strips cut in bits
- Prepare garlic powder
- Prepare long pasta like spaghettis or liguinis
- Make ready freshly grated parmesan cheese
This is comfort food at it's best. It's sweet, it's savory, it's creamy and cheesy and guess what? It's actually pretty darn good for you too thanks to delicious roasted butternut squash and wilted kale. Pureed butternut squash is replacing the need for cups and cups of cheese, butter, and cream.
Instructions to make Butternut squash creamy pasta with kale & bacon topping:
- Cut the butternut squash in half, lengthwise. Scoop out the seeds and guts. Lay on baking sheet, cut side up.
- Brush cut side with 2 tablespoon of olive oil, one for each half. Sprinkle with dry oregano, Provence herbs and fresh ground black pepper.
- Cook in preheated oven for about one hour at 400° or till a fork easily pierce through.
- Once cooked, put butternut squash aside on counter top to let cool down for about 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, cook pasta as per package directions. Make sure to keep 2 cups of cooking water when draining.
- Scoop the flesh from butternut squash, put it in a pot or pan (I've used the same pot I've cooked my pasta in) and make purée with a spatula.
- Add in the garlic powder and some of the cooking water from the pasta, little by little, till you get a creamy sauce. You might need just 1 cup out of the 2 left aside. Blend it to your taste.
- Add in the cooked pasta and mix well. Cover and let sit on the stove at very low heat.
- In a large skillet, fry the bacon bits at medium high heat, addind the chopped kale little by little till it's all wilted. Add fresh ground black pepper, mix well and put aside.
- Serve the pasta in butternut squash sauce in 4 plates, topping with kale & bacon mix and freshly grated parmesan cheese.
- Enjoy!
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