Butternut squash creamy pasta with kale & bacon topping
Butternut squash creamy pasta with kale & bacon topping

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, butternut squash creamy pasta with kale & bacon topping. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Butternut squash creamy pasta with kale & bacon topping is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Butternut squash creamy pasta with kale & bacon topping is something that I have loved my entire life.

Peel the small butternut squash and cut it in half, removing the seeds with a grapefruit spoon. When the pasta is ready, drain it into a colander and let it. A bowl of pasta can chase any troubles away, and this bowl can chase away unpleasant people, expensive car repairs, leaky roofs, and the terrors of existential dread. Okay, maybe not that last one, but there's nothing to dread and everything to look forward to in mixing sweet butternut, healthy kale.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have butternut squash creamy pasta with kale & bacon topping using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Butternut squash creamy pasta with kale & bacon topping:
  1. Make ready 1 small butternut squash
  2. Prepare 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
  3. Take 1/2 teaspoon dry oregano
  4. Get 1/2 teaspoon Provence dry herbs
  5. Get to taste fresh ground black pepper
  6. Make ready 1 bunch kale, coarsly chopped
  7. Make ready 1/2 cup precooked real bacon bits or bacon strips cut in bits
  8. Take 2 pinch garlic powder
  9. Get 1 1/2 pack long pasta like spaghettis or liguinis
  10. Get to taste freshly grated parmesan cheese

Cut the butternut squash in half, lengthwise. Scoop out the seeds and guts. Lay on baking sheet, cut side up. Adapted from a recipe I found while searching for a pasta and butternut squash dish.

Instructions to make Butternut squash creamy pasta with kale & bacon topping:
  1. Cut the butternut squash in half, lengthwise. Scoop out the seeds and guts. Lay on baking sheet, cut side up.
  2. Brush cut side with 2 tablespoon of olive oil, one for each half. Sprinkle with dry oregano, Provence herbs and fresh ground black pepper.
  3. Cook in preheated oven for about one hour at 400° or till a fork easily pierce through.
  4. Once cooked, put butternut squash aside on counter top to let cool down for about 10 minutes.
  5. Meanwhile, cook pasta as per package directions. Make sure to keep 2 cups of cooking water when draining.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Add in the cooked pasta and mix well. Cover and let sit on the stove at very low heat.
  9. 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.
  10. Serve the pasta in butternut squash sauce in 4 plates, topping with kale & bacon mix and freshly grated parmesan cheese.
  11. Enjoy!

Lay on baking sheet, cut side up. Adapted from a recipe I found while searching for a pasta and butternut squash dish. With a few modifications I made it vegan, gluten-free, soy-free. This gourmet, seasonal pasta showcases creamy roasted butternut squash—already peeled and cut for easier prep! Mafalda pasta is a perfect match for sautéed kale, which folds right into the pasta's frilly edges.

So that’s going to wrap it up for this special food butternut squash creamy pasta with kale & bacon topping recipe. Thanks so much for reading. I am sure you can make this at home. There’s gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to save this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!