Description:
This delicious comfort food will keep you coming back for more! Between the baked breadcrumbs, the hint of nutmeg, or the creamy butternut squash-cheese sauce, I couldn’t possibly choose my favorite part even if I wanted to. Enjoy this dish especially as it starts to get cooler outside; it will warm your heart!
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hr 25 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Serving Size: 8 Servings
Ingredients:
- 1 box (16 ounces) pasta of choice
- ½ butternut squash
- 1 cup plant milk of choice
- 1 cup nutritional yeast
- 1 shallot
- 8 cloves garlic (unpeeled)
- 6 sprigs of thyme
- ⅓ cup raw cashews
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons miso paste
- 1½ tablespoons tapioca flour
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon paprika
- Salt for taste
Breadcrumb Mixture
- 1 cup breadcrumbs
- ¼ cup oil
- 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
Instructions:
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Peel the skin off the butternut squash and remove the seeds and stringy fibers.
Pell the skin off the shallot and cut into a couple medium-sized pieces.
Place butternut squash cut side up, shallot, and garlic on an oven-safe pan. Add sprigs of thyme on top of the squash and drizzle oil on all of it. Then place in the oven.
After 30 minutes, remove the garlic and shallot pieces, and set aside. Leave the butternut squash in the oven for another 30 minutes.
Cook pasta, and strain the water, reserving one cup of the water. Set pasta and water aside.
Remove the garlic cloves from its skin and add to a blender with butternut squash, nutritional yeast, shallot pieces, plant milk, cashews, lemon juice, miso paste, tapioca flour, nutmeg, paprika salt, and one cup of your pasta water. Blend until completely smooth.
In a large bowl, add cooked pasta and the butternut squash blend and mix thoroughly so that all pasta is evenly coated.
Place the pasta in an oven safe casserole dish.
In a bowl, combine all breadcrumb mixture ingredients and coat the macaroni with the breadcrumbs so that it is completely covered.
Place the dish into the oven on 400 degrees F for about 25 minutes, or until the top is slightly browned, then remove once it is.
Enjoy!
Photo & Recipe Courtesy of jaz boler