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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Cara’s Pumpkin Pasta

It seems like every blogger out there has made this recipe. It was only time until I made it myself. What better time to than A Week of Pumpkin to make Cara’s famous Pumpkin Pasta. If you don’t know about Cara’s blog, be sure to check it out. She’s definitely a pumpkin princess. She puts pumpkin in things that I would never think to put pumpkin in.

I know most people have made this with penne, but I got bowtie pasta because I love bowtie pasta. Hubby and I rarely have pasta in the house. We just don’t eat it that much. I don’t think the shape of the pasta had a negative impact on the dish at all.

I doubled Cara’s recipe so that I could freeze some of it for Hubby and I to take in our lunches next week. With my doubled recipe I got 6 servings. Four of which went straight into the freezer. I would never think that I would enjoy pumpkin pasta, but I tell you what, this stuff is delicious. I love the colors of the pumpkin and spinach together on the plate. Goat cheese went really well with this dish as well.

Creamy Pumpkin Pasta

Yield: 6 servings

Ingredients:

8 oz bowtie pasta
2 tsp olive oil
1 small onion, thinly sliced
4 cloves of garlic, minced
~2 tsp sage
4 links cooked chicken sausage, sliced
1 cup low fat cottage cheese
1 can pumpkin puree
pinch of freshly ground nutmeg
10 oz torn spinach, thick stems removed
crumbled goat cheese, optional

Directions:

Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add onions and cook for about 10-minutes, until softened. Add garlic, sage, and chicken sausage.

Meanwhile, cook pasta according to package directions.

In a blender, combine combine pumpkin and cottage cheese. Blend until no lumps are present. Add to sausage mixture in skillet and continue to cook over low heat. Season to taste with salt and freshly ground pepper, and a pinch of nutmeg.

Drain pasta and return to pot over low heat. Add sausage mixture and baby spinach, and toss together. Cover for a few minutes to let the spinach wilt. Serve with goat cheese, if desired.

Recipe adapted from Cara's Cravings

And don’t forget about my Power of Pink Challenge going on all month.

Check out my week of pumpkin here.

Main Meal, Poultry

6 comments »

14 Responses to “Chicken Pot Pie with Cream Cheese and Chive Biscuits”

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Shannon — March 25, 2013 at 3:20 pm
love your adaptations- and i agree, one-pot meals usually need more veggies!
- beantownbaker — March 25th, 2013 @ 3:44 pm
  
  Not that this meal is in any way healthy, but at least bumping up the veggies (and the servings) reduces the amount of pure indulgence per serving…
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Sues — March 25, 2013 at 3:37 pm
Love all the changes you made to this! And I agree- the more veggies, the merrier 🙂
- beantownbaker — March 25th, 2013 @ 3:45 pm
  
  Glad I’m not the only one!
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Megan — March 25, 2013 at 4:13 pm

I love that idea to just throw extra veggies in. I always have some leftover unused veggies going bad in the fridge after I’ve used some for a recipe. The biscuits on this look amazing.
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Wendy — March 25, 2013 at 10:13 pm
This looks rich and satisfying. I love the idea of biscuits on top rather than pie crust. Cream cheese chive biscuits sound especially delicious!
- beantownbaker — March 26th, 2013 @ 7:29 am
  
  I definitely plan to make these biscuits again some time. They’d be delicious even without the creamy pot pie filling under them.
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Nutmeg Nanny — March 26, 2013 at 10:36 am
I love the thought of throwing the extra veggies in, i think a lot of people are hesitant to do so. This looks so delicious and satisfying 🙂
- beantownbaker — March 26th, 2013 @ 8:16 pm
  
  Yea when it comes to cooking, I figure there’s no harm in playing with recipes. Baking is another story…
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Ashley Bee (Quarter Life Crisis Cuisine) — March 26, 2013 at 11:11 am
My boyfriend, who eats a good portion of the overall meals I cook plus leftovers, hates veggies. This is a problem, because I don’t like food going bad but I can’t eat it all myself. I love recipes like this because it’d probably be SO tasty, he’d hardly even notice the abundance of green. Or he’d pick the peas out. Who knows.
- beantownbaker — March 26th, 2013 @ 8:16 pm
  
  I can’t imagine hating veggies… But I agree, I think he’d hardly notice the veggies in this. It’s that creamy and delicious.
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scott — March 27, 2013 at 12:06 pm

This recipe looks delicious. Do you know the nutritional values? If you post it on http://www.myrecipemagic.com they will calculate it for you and you can get paid for posting recipes.
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Rachel @ Baked by Rachel — March 28, 2013 at 6:15 am
I love that you topped this off with biscuits instead of the traditional flaky crust!
- beantownbaker — March 28th, 2013 @ 6:53 am
  
  Biscuits are always the right answer 😉