Recipe: Tasty Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese
Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese.
You can have Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese
- It's 360 g of rigatoni.
- You need 2 of onions, finely chopped.
- Prepare 3 cloves of garlic, minced.
- Prepare 4 tsp of paprika powder.
- Prepare 4 tsp of dried thyme.
- It's 1 of small (600 g) pumpkin, cubed.
- You need 300 ml of vegetable broth.
- You need 300 g of spinach.
- It's 100 g of grated cheddar.
- It's 150 g of grated old cheese.
- Prepare to taste of salt and pepper.
- Prepare of pumpkin seeds (optional garnish).
Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese step by step
- Boil plenty of water in a saucepan with a lid for the rigatoni and cook the rigatoni, covered, for 13-15 minutes. Then drain but keep some of the cooking water. Leave to steam without a lid..
- Cut the onion into half rings. Crush or chop the garlic..
- Heat the olive oil in a saucepan with a lid over medium heat and fry the onion, garlic and paprika powder for 2 - 3 minutes. Add the pumpkin cubes and the dried thyme and stir fry for 4 - 6 minutes. Deglaze with the stock and cook, covered, 8-11 minutes, or until the pumpkin cubes are soft..
- Puree with a hand blender. Add a splash of milk or some cooking water if the sauce is too thick..
- Add the spinach, 3/4 of the cheddar, 3/4 of the old cheese and the rigatoni to the pumpkin sauce and stir well. Season with salt and pepper and heat for 1 minute more..
- Transfer in an oven dish and sprinkle with the remaining cheese. Bake the pasta dish in the oven for 10 - 15 minutes, or until the top is nicely browned..
- Meanwhile, heat a frying pan, without oil, over medium heat and roast the pumpkin seeds until they start to pop. Use to garnish..
- Enjoy! :).
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