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Squash Pasta Sauce

Dinner Mar 3, 2024


Note: This recipe doesn't use much squash. The original plan was to make soup, but it's been an unseasonably warm winter, so soup no longer sounded as good to me. The unused squash was vacuum sealed and frozen.


Ingredients:

1 Butternut Squash

1 Kabocha Squash

4 Carrots 1 Large Yellow Onion

1 cup Chicken Stock 3 tablespoons chopped, fresh Sage 1 tablespoon Sherry Vinegar

Vegetable Oil

1 cup Parmesan Cheese

Kosher Salt

Black Pepper


Directions:

Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C)


Cut both squashes in half, clean out pulp, rub with oil, salt, and pepper


Bake for 1 hour on a foiled and greased baking sheet


Meanwhile, peel the carrots and cut into one inch pieces, cut the onion into twelfths


Once the squashes are out of the oven and cooling, use the same baking sheet but a new greased sheet of foil. Coat the carrots and onions with oil and season with salt and pepper.


Bake for 45 minutes


Meanwhile, once the squashes are cool enough to handle, use a spoon to scoop out the flesh


Once the carrot and onion are out of the oven add stock, and puree with an immersion blender


Add 1 cup of squash, sage, vinegar, cheese, salt, and pepper and blend


Taste test and season as needed


Press the sauce through a fine-mesh strainer, save the solids that didn't make it through for another use


Reheat the sauce and serve





Squash sauce with tortellini and sautéed spinach and mushrooms
Sauce served with tortellini, sautéed spinach, and mushrooms

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