Family Bacon, Pumpkin & Sage Pasta
with Burnt Butter Sauce
This pasta is a symphony of subtle flavours and textures; you’re going to love it. Sweet, caramelised pumpkin creates a creaminess all by itself, while browned butter provides a nutty base for the crispy sage and toasted walnuts. All that’s left to do is to finish with a sprinkling of fresh Parmesan cheese.
The quantities provided above are averages only.
Produced in a facility that processes eggs, milk, fish, peanuts, sesame, shellfish, soy, tree nuts and wheat.
Ingredients
1 packet
Spiral Pasta
(Contains: Gluten;)
1
brown onion
1 packet
Middle Bacon
800 g
pumpkin
1 bunch
sage
¼ cup
walnuts
(Contains: Walnut; May be present: Milk, Peanuts, Sesame, Soy, Almond, Brazil nut, Cashew, Hazelnut, Macadamia, Pine Nut, Pistachio, Pecan.)
1 bag
baby spinach leaves
1 block
Parmesan cheese
(Contains: Milk;)
Not included in your delivery
2 tbs
olive oil
100 g
butter
(Contains: Milk;)
Utensils
Cooking Steps
To prepare the ingredients, thinly slice the brown onion, remove the rind of the bacon and thinly slice, remove the skin of the pumpkin and chop into 1 cm cubes, tear the sage leaves, wash the baby spinach and finely grate the Parmesan.
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.
To serve, divide the pasta between bowls. Top with the freshly grated Parmesan cheese. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
