This Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta with Fried Sage is the perfect Fall meal. With just a few ingredients and one hour, you will have a decadent and tasty vegan pasta dish.
Welp, it is officially Fall people. Pumpkin spice lattes, sweaters and Hocus Pocus is in the air. Only one thing is missing...all of the carbs! And this pasta dish is not going to disappoint. It is creamy, savory and super simple.
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How to Make the Creamy Sauce
Butternut squash, onions and garlic are cooked down with broth and a couple spices before being blended together to make the creamiest tastiest sauce. Are you as surprised as me that it is that easy? Because it truly is!
And the most surprising part of all? There is no cream in this creamy sauce. Whattttt? How can this be? Well the squash provides the perfect creamy base, and with just a touch of vegan butter, this sauce gets ultra silky.
How to Serve
Cook up some spaghetti and combine it with the sauce. Serve this up with some vegan parmesan and fried sage and you are going to be in pasta heaven.
I'm not going to lie, you could easily bypass the pasta and just eat the sauce as a soup. Serve it up with some toasted bread slices and top it with the fried sage and call it a day. I'm telling you, you will want to eat this sauce by the spoonful.
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📖 Recipe
Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons vegan butter
- 2 tablespoons sage leaves chopped
- 4 cloves garlic diced
- 1 yellow onion chopped
- 1 medium butternut squash peeled, seeds removed, and chopped in ½" cubes
- salt & pepper to taste
- 2 cups broth I used vegan chicken broth
- red pepper flakes optional
- 1 pound spaghetti
- vegan parmesan optional
Instructions
- Melt butter in a pan over medium-high heat. Add sage and a pinch of salt to the pan and sauté for 1-2 minutes (or until crispy). Remove with a slotted spoon and place on a paper towel.
- Lower heat to medium and add garlic, onion and butternut squash to the pan. Sprinkle with salt & pepper and sauté for 10 minutes (or until onions are translucent). Add broth to the pan and bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer for 20 minutes (or until squash is fork tender).
- While the squash mixture is cooking, bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add the pasta and cook until al dente. Drain pasta and set aside until ready to use.
- Add squash mixture to a blender and blend until smooth - you can also use an immersion blender. Taste and add salt, pepper and red pepper flakes to taste.
- Place pan you cooked the squash in back on the stovetop over low heat. Combine sauce and pasta in the pan and toss to combine. Serve with vegan parmesan, additional black pepper and fried sage.
Una
Could I freeze the purée and when I make the fettuccine recipe, fry up the sage and it then...????
Jess
I love this past so much! The fried sage just makes it so amazing! Thank you!
Rebecca
Could this recipe work with dried sage?
Rene
Totally. The fried sage gives this more texture than flavor. I would add dried sage right to the sauce (rather than adding it on top at the end).
beth
looks delicious! roughly how many cups of squash do you get out of a medium squash? the ones coming in to our farmers market are pretty big, so i'm trying to get a better sense of the recipe. thanks!
Rene
I would say approximately 3 cups.
beth
great -thank you!