A creamy and enveloping first course, pasta with pumpkin cream and stracchino is irresistible, especially for those who, like me, love pumpkin. Delicious, delicate, it is also perfect for getting kids to eat vegetables, who often don’t like them. I, on the other hand, adore pumpkin and among the reasons I love autumn are the first pumpkins, I would eat them in all ways.
Let’s get to work and prepare the pasta with pumpkin cream and stracchino together.
If you also love pumpkin and are looking for new recipes to prepare it, I leave you some tasty ideas.
- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Affordable
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Autumn, Winter
Ingredients for Preparing Pasta with Pumpkin Cream and Stracchino
- 11.3 oz short pasta
- 7.1 oz pumpkin flesh
- 5.3 oz stracchino
- 2 tbsp chopped celery, carrot and onion
- 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tbsp chopped parsley
- to taste milk
Tools
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- Pressure Cooker
- Steamer Basket
- Frying Pan
Steps for Preparing Pasta with Pumpkin Cream and Stracchino
First, wash the pumpkin, cut it into pieces and remove the seeds. Steam it to make it soft. I used a pressure cooker and it took 20 minutes from the whistle.
In a non-stick pan, place a chopped mix of celery, carrot, and onion with a couple of tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil. Let it sauté and add the soft pumpkin flesh, peeled and cut into pieces. Add some milk, salt, and pepper, and mash with a fork until you get a cream. Flavor with the chopped parsley. Enrich with stracchino and mix to obtain a cream.
Cook the pasta and drain it al dente, setting aside some of the cooking water. Add it to the pumpkin cream and let it flavor for a couple of minutes, adding the pasta cooking water. Serve the pasta still hot.
Storage
I recommend not storing the dressed pasta, but you can prepare the pumpkin cream a couple of days in advance.
FAQ
What can I use instead of stracchino?
You can use casatella or spreadable cheese.
You can use casatella or spreadable cheese.
