Last year I fell in love with creamy butternut
squash as a pasta sauce and have had this on my mind ever since.
Not exact matches
~ using half veggie noodles and half
pasta for a spaghetti and meatball dish ~ substituting plain Greek yogurt for mayonnaise in tuna or chicken salad sandwiches ~ baking rather than frying crab wontons ~ puréeing white beans
as a base for creamy
sauces ~ adding puréed butternut
squash or sweet potato to a cheese
sauce ~ making your own breakfast (and other) sandwiches ~ boosting a breakfast sandwich with a vegetable or bean patty
Use beans
as a binder in vegetable - based cakes like these
Squash and Sweet Potato Pancakes, or toss a handful or white beans or lentils into
pasta with tomato
sauce or brothy soup.
Serve plain or with your favorite
sauce as an appetizer, or simmer in your favorite red
sauce and serve over a
pasta substitute like zucchini noodles or spaghetti
squash.
Since spaghetti
squash is inherently sweet
as well, I recommend a spicy
pasta sauce like arrabbiata to balance out this dish.
This
sauce goes equally well with the zucchini, summer
squash and pepper «noodles»
as I did here, or with rice or traditional
pasta.
Senior food editor Chris Morocco used this method for his summer
squash and basil
pasta, and he describes the creamy texture of the finished
sauce as «similar to a true Alfredo, without all the Parmesan.»
Combine
pasta,
squash purée, and 1/4 cup
pasta cooking liquid in reserved skillet and cook over medium heat, tossing and adding more
pasta cooking liquid
as needed, until
sauce coats
pasta, about 2 minutes.
It worked great
as the
sauce for a primavera style
pasta that was stocked full of baby tomatoes and summer
squash.