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.

Ingredients of Pasta w butternut squash sauce, sausage and spinach

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

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. 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.

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!.

We often find butternut squash inside of ravioli, so why not on the outside for a butternut squash pasta dish? It just needed to be thinned a bit with water, made savory. Puree butternut squash and cooking cream set aside. Melt butter in a pan and add shallots. Cook until translucent then add sage.