Maybe for someone, it’s cheesy cause I sneaked one and a half cup of pumpkin in it!? But – Yes, it’s cheesy (like there is cheese in it)! This recipe requires mozzarella, Parmesan, and even cream cheese 🙂
I wouldn’t dare to call it healthier, but someone may, cause there is no flour in cheese sauce and extra points for veggies (pumpkin – I’m not botanic so I won’t call pumpkin a fruit!).
So, if you still are interested in this recipe, here you go! Enjoy!
Cheesy Baked Pumpkin Pasta
This recipe requires one and half cup of pumpkin puree
Ingredients
- – 5 cups uncooked pasta
- 2 tbsp butter or oil
- 1 onion
- 5 (strong) garlic cloves
- 1 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp thyme
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup cream cheese
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan
- 2 packages (125 grams each) Mozzarella sliced
Directions
- Cook pasta in salt water. Preheat an oven to 200°C.
- While Pasta is cooking start making sauce. Cut onion, garlic, measure spices, and grate the cheese.
- In a big frying pan melt butter and fry onions until golden brown. Add garlic and stir-fry for few seconds.
- Add spices and salt. Milk, pumpkin puree, cream cheese and Parmesan. Mix until combined, cook for few minutes.
- Taste the pumpkin – cheese sauce, add spices and salt if needed.
- Drain pasta and mix into the sauce. Transfer to baking dish. Cover up with Mozzarella slices and bake in the oven for about 25-35 minutes or until golden brown.
Ilze
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I’ve never been attracted to pumpkin except when sliced and ‘toasted’ on the hob of a wood-fired oven, but this looks tasty.
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On the ‘plīts’ if I remember correctly (‘plită’ in Romanian). Sliced potatoes taste pretty good ‘toasted’ in this way too.
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Janis also doesn’t like pumpkin… or should I say didn’t like! Now he is eating everything “from pumpkin”. Yesterday, I baked soft cookies and he liked them too!
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It’s your cooking Ilze! 😜😜
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🙂
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Very good timing. I have piece of pumpkin in fridge. Look very delicious and good idea. Thank you for sharing!
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You are welcome! I hope will like it!
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Looks delicious- think I could eat the whole thing! I’ll have to make this 🙂
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If you do, let me know if you liked it!
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I definitely will do! 🙂
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I printed it for a possible culinary excursion. Thank you!
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Nice. I hope you will like it. It’s more like “autumn recipe” but I had the last big pumpkin :). So, pumpkin week here 🙂
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That’s why you have another pumpkin recipe this week. Waste not, want not. Enjoy!
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🙂 Yes… there is few more. But as usually – terrible pictures 🙂
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Good way to use leftover pumpkin. Nicely hidden for those that ‘hate’ veggies!
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Yes! This was the first recipe I introduced Janis with pumpkin 😀
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Good job!
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🙂 I loved it!
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