Pumpkin and Ricotta Pasta

If you love pumpkin and ricotta, you absolutely must try this recipe. The pumpkin and ricotta pasta is very delicate and tasty.

It is quick to prepare and the result is more than excellent. Ideal as a pasta sauce or spread on crostini, this cream is also good with chicken or veal. Have I convinced you?

Let’s start messing around…

  • Cuisine: Italian

With these ingredients I made the cream to dress two generous plates of pasta

Ingredients

🎃 10.5 oz of pumpkin

🎃 3.5 oz of cow’s milk ricotta

🎃 Fine salt to taste

🎃 Extra virgin olive oil to taste

🎃 Parsley

🎃 Garlic

Steps

➡️ Put the pumpkin cut into pieces, not too large, in a pan with a drizzle of oil

➡️ Add a little water and add garlic and salt

➡️ Cover with a lid

➡️ Cook until the pumpkin is soft (about 15 minutes)

➡️ Once the pumpkin has softened, turn off the stove and blend with an immersion blender (or mash with a fork)

➡️ Meanwhile, cook the pasta

➡️ Add the ricotta to the pumpkin cream (If needed, add a ladle of pasta cooking water)

➡️ Add the parsley

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