Family Bacon, Pumpkin & Sage Pasta

Bring a large saucepan of salted water to the boil. Add the spiral pasta and cook for 10 minutes or until ‘al dente’. Drain well and return to the saucepan off the heat.

Meanwhile, heat half of the olive oil in a large frying pan over a medium-high heat. Add the brown onion and middle bacon and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until the onion is soft and the bacon is slightly crispy and browned. Remove the onion and bacon from the frying pan. Heat the remaining oil in the same frying pan and add the pumpkin. Cook, without stirring, for 6-8 minutes or until it starts to caramelise on the bottom. Give the pan a shake to redistribute the pumpkin and then continue cooking for a further 3 minutes. Add the onion, bacon, butter, sage and walnuts (if the kids don’t like walnuts you can stir them through your meal at the end) and continue cooking until the butter begins to brown and the sage crisps up (about 1-2 minutes). Remove from the heat and stir the pasta through the cooked ingredients with the baby spinach.