Recipe: Delicious Pasta w butternut squash sauce, sausage and spinach

Pasta w butternut squash sauce, sausage and spinach. 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.

We're really "pan roasting" the butternut squash for this dish. 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. You can cook Pasta w butternut squash sauce, sausage and spinach using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Pasta w butternut squash sauce, sausage and spinach

1. You need Half of pound Italian sausage.
2. It's of Crushed red pepper flakes.
3. Prepare Half of pound pasta.
4. You need of Trader Joe’s Autumnal Harvest pasta sauce.
5. It's of Parmesan cheese.
6. It's 1 handful of Baby spinach.
7. It's 2 of garlic cloves; minced.

That and of course it makes sausage fiend OH super happy. Butternut squash sauce is a healthy, light alternative to cream sauces made with heavy cream and butter. Pasta served with a homemade butternut squash pasta sauce of roasted butternut squash, shallots, cream, and Parmesan cheese. We often find butternut squash inside of ravioli, so why not on the outside for a butternut squash pasta dish?

Pasta w butternut squash sauce, sausage and spinach step by step

1. 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!.
2. 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..
3. Don’t forget your pasta!!!!! Keep some pasta water on the side. Leave the pasta in a strainer..
4. Add in the pasta sauce to the pan w sausage. Simmer until bubbly..
5. Then the spinach..
6. Arrange your bowl! Pasta, sauce, top w shredded Parmesan and pepper if ya like! (I love freshly cracked black pepper) Enjoy!.

It just needed to be thinned a bit with water, made savory. Add pasta, sausage, spinach, and butternut squash to the skillet stirring to coat everything. If you need to thin the sauce a bit you can add the reserved pasta water until you reach the consistency you like. Once the spinach is cooked remove pan from heat and serve immediately. Puree butternut squash and cooking cream set aside.