Penne with Oven-Roasted Butternut Squash, Greens, and Field Roast Smoked Apple Sage Sausage
 
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Recipe type: Easy Weeknight Meals
Serves: 4-5
Ingredients
  • 3 cups of butternut squash pieces (about 1.5 lb. of butternut squash, peeled, seeded, and cut into cubes)
  • 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil (divided use)
  • ½ medium onion, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tablespoon cumin seeds (or use ground cumin if you prefer)
  • ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes, or more if you like things spicy
  • 1 large bunch of spinach or lacinato kale, stemmed and thinly sliced into ribbons (about 3-4 cups of ribbons)
  • 12 ounces penne
  • 3 or 4 Field Roast Smoked Apple Sage Plant-Based Sausages, quartered lengthwise and chopped into fairly small pieces
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • (Optional additions if you eat dairy are fresh mozzarella, burrata, and/or Parmesan)
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 400 degrees. Put a large pot of water on to boil.
  2. Toss squash cubes with 1 tablespoon olive oil, salt, and pepper and roast on a foil-lined sheet pan for 30 minutes (or until soft, and slightly browned in spots).
  3. Meanwhile, heat a large skillet, and add remaining tablespoon of olive oil. Sauté the diced onion until translucent, then add the pressed garlic, cumin, and red pepper flakes and sauté for another minute.
  4. Add the spinach or kale ribbons to the skillet and sauté at the same time as the pasta cooks in the next step. Add the Field Roast sausage pieces to the skillet about 5 minutes before the pasta is done.
  5. Add a tablespoon of salt to the boiling water. Add the pasta to the boiling water and cook uncovered according to package directions until al dente. Reserve 1 cup of the pasta water before draining the pasta into a colander.
  6. Your squash should be done at this point, so remove the squash from the oven. Add the oven roasted squash to the skillet, followed by the drained pasta and about ½ cup of the pasta water. Stir to combine and assess if you need more of the pasta water.
  7. Taste and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Notes
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Recipe by Fool a Carnivore at https://foolacarnivore.com/penne-with-oven-roasted-butternut-squash-greens-and-field-roast-smoked-apple-sage-sausage/