Creamy Pumpkin Pasta Sauce

I bought pumpkin the other day and I was wondering what to do with it. Should I make a pie, or a nice pot of soup... and I decided why not try making a nice pasta sauce?

I was looking online and all I really saw was how there were only chunks of pumpkin added and not really a pumpkin sauce. So I decided to give it a go. So pumpkin lovers rejoice, this sauce could essentially remind you of a pumpkin pie... just that it's not sweet and instead it's more savoury and flavourful.

Ingredients:

Pumpkin 

Brown Onion

Thyme

Rosemary

Thicken Cream

Cooking Oil

(Nutmeg) 

(Cumin)

 

This is just the sauce recipe since I'm pretty sure many would already know how to cook the pasta :p Just boil it!

• Step 1, heat up water in a pot 
• Step 2, while waiting for the water to boil, cut up the pumpkin and onion
• Step 3, add the pumpkin to the boiling water
• Step 4, when the pumpkin has soften, place it in a bowl and give it a good mash
• Step 5, add in the herbs and thicken cream and give it a good mix till uniform
• Step 6, in a saucepan, add in a little cooking oil and sautee the onions
• Step 7, when the onions have caramalised, add in the pumpkin mixture.
• Step 8, taste test and alter the recipe to your liking :) And you're done!!

This is a nice recipe to try if you don't know what you want to do with your pumpkin. I usually run out of ideas with pumpkins and usually if it's used in cooking, it's not the main star of the dish. So if you're a pumpkin lover, I'm sure you'd like that the pumpkin is the absolute main focus of this dish :D 

 

You can use a potato masher for the pumpkins as well :) It makes life so much easier if you own a potato masher. No more using the back of the spoon or fork and tediously trying to mash everything evenly! 

Hugs for everyone~ Have a smashing time!