How to Cook Tasty 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.

Butternut squash, sweet Italian sausage, sage and pasta go together like, well like butternut squash and sage. Everything is cooked in the same pan When we heat the butter and it starts to brown (caramelize), it adds a ton of flavor. We're really "pan roasting" the butternut squash for this dish. You can have Pasta w butternut squash sauce, sausage and spinach using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pasta w butternut squash sauce, sausage and spinach

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

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. That and of course it makes sausage fiend OH super happy. Baby spinach is an easy green addition to this dish but you can also add in wilted swiss chard.

Pasta w butternut squash sauce, sausage and spinach instructions

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!.

Different from the norm with turkey sausage, roasted butternut squash, balsamic vinegar, and sage. In a large skillet over medium heat, cook the turkey sausage until evenly brown. Transfer the cooked squash and onion and the cooked pasta to the skillet. Butternut squash sauce is a healthy, light alternative to cream sauces made with heavy cream and butter. Puree butternut squash and cooking cream set aside.