Whenever I incorporate the yummy squash into my recipes, I generally make sweet dishes, sweetened with cinnamon, nutmeg or pumpkin’s lover: pumpkin pie spice. This evening I was determined to use the fall delight to make a savory dish: pasta with pumpkin sauce.
I began to make the pumpkin sauce by sauteing chopped yellow squash and onion in a pan sprayed with cooking spray.
Sizzlin' Squash and Onions
Once the onions became slightly carmelized, I added a splash of chicken broth and some finely diced garlic and let it simmer for a couple minutes.
Chicken Broth and Garlic
Noodles
Almond Breeze Almond Milk
Pumpkin Sauce
I seasoned the pumpkin sauce with salt and pepper before topping the noodles with the savory sauce.
Savory Pumpkin Pasta
When I tasted the sauce on its own, I wasn’t sure if it was what I was going for, but when I used it to top the noodles, I was very pleased. The pumpkin and veggies created a thick sauce, making this a wonderful fall pasta dish.
Yum, Yum
It was kind of weird enjoying a food I normally associate with sweetness without the typical cinnamon and spices, but I enjoyed using pumpkin in a different way. Plus, I felt like I was making a seasonally appropriate dish which put me in a fabulous fall mood!
Time to clean up the apartment a bit and read more of The Lost Symbol. Poor Dan Brown’s book has been very neglected lately because we’ve been so busy! I gotta give it some lovin’ tonight. 😉
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That pasta looks great!
I’ve never been a huge pumpkin fan, and everyone around this time of year is raving about pumpkin. Bloggers are making recipes with pumpkin, Starbucks is advertising their pumpkin lattes, my local grocery store is selling carving pumpkins, etc, etc. I keep turning up my nose at all of this, like, “Ew, pumpkin is gross.”
Then, just today, I realized that I haven’t had anything with pumpkin in it since I was like, 9 years old, when I had a piece of pumpkin pie and wasn’t impressed.
I seriously need to get on this bandwagon! My 9 year old self can take her less-than-stellar pumpkin pie experience and shove it!
Needless to say, your pasta really does look amazing…. I’m going to bookmark this as one of the pumpkin recipes I gotta try out soon! =D
you are uber creative 🙂
looks SOOO good, are those the carba nada noodles I see?? I cannot wait to try them!!!
you know it!! they’re so delicious.