Recipe: Delicious Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce

Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce. This classic, vegan Roasted Butternut Squash Sauce with sage is a delicious accompaniment to your favorite pasta! It's healthy, surprisingly easy to make and need I say absolutely delicious! We've served out creamy butternut squash pasta sauce with linguini, but you can experiment with any other pasta you like.

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. Spiced and creamy (yet cream-less) butternut squash sauce tossed with whole grain linguine. You can have Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce

1. It's 2 of Butternut Squash.
2. You need of Olive oil.
3. You need of Water.
4. Prepare 12 oz of box Gluten Free Penne pasta.
5. It's of Butter.
6. It's of Chicken broth.
7. It's Half of and half.
8. Prepare 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. It's of Salt and pepper.
12. Prepare of Cavender's Greek Seasoning.
13. You need of Pasta water.

Top with fried sage for a healthy, comforting meal. How to Make Vegan Butternut Squash Linguine. Bon Appetit's recipe called for pancetta and chicken broth, but I knew I could easily make it vegetarian and. Butternut squash has a naturally creamy texture when blended, so we have put that to good use.

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!!.

If you don't usually like butternut squash, give this a try as it might just change your mind. You also don't need to drown pasta in sauce, just add a little bit as less is more when it comes to Italian cooking. Or Brown Butter Alfredo Sauce drool. This sauce is made from sweet butternut squash and makes my heart *and tummy* happy. If you want it particularly creamy and velvety which you DO, stir in some parmesan cheese and heavy cream.