I will ain up to it correct past and there: I americium an inveterate collector of pasta. Guilty arsenic charged.
In good nutrient shops and Italian markets, I emotion to study nan different shapes and ideate which will lend themselves to soft sauces aliases chunky ones. I emotion their names (rooster’s crests, radiators, small ears, thimbles), nan accepted packaging, and nan truth that, for conscionable a fewer euros, I tin treat myself to a package of thing caller — not to mention nan committedness of an easy meal.
Before I had children, I had to rein successful my purchases, arsenic my room cabinets overflowed faster that Maxence and I really ate pasta. But pinch 2 young boys who would eat it astatine each repast if I fto them — their dream meal is acold leftover pasta, a recessive trait for judge — I americium free to bargain immoderate I please, knowing I will easy find a usage for it.
And I precocious fell difficult for a package of lumaconi, those ample snail-shaped pasta sold successful large bulging packages that shriek “Buy me, I’m special!”
Lumaconi are nan benignant of pasta whose life pursuit is to beryllium stuffed pinch a condiment and gratinéed successful nan oven for an immensely satisfying vegetarian main dish, aliases a festive side to a roast bird. And arsenic nan holidays approach, I thought I would propose a simple, seasonal condiment of roasted butternut squash and chestnuts.
You sprinkle nan full point pinch food truthful it will brownish nicely…
… and you compression citrus juice complete nan apical conscionable earlier serving. You extremity up pinch a aureate and appetizing dish that boasts al dente pasta, a silky condiment that sticks to nan ribbed sides of nan lumaconi, small pockets of melty food pinch chestnut bits, and a apical furniture that is toasted and crunchy and irresistible. (Keep an oculus connected nan small cousins who whitethorn beryllium tempted to eat conscionable nan top.)
It’s a look that is wowing but easy to make — nan method is straightforward, and galore of nan steps tin beryllium made successful beforehand — and easy to unrecorded with — it’s beautiful astatine room temperature, and almost tastes amended reheated.
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Stuffed Lumaconi pinch Butternut and Chestnuts Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 mini butternut squash aliases different firm-flesh wintertime squash, astir 800 grams (1 3/4 pounds), seeds and fibers removed, soma cubed (no request to peel if organic)
- Olive oil
- Fine oversea salt
- 100 grams (3 1/2 ounces) cooked peeled chestnuts from a jar, chopped
- 1 mini bunch level leafage parsley, finely chopped
- 1 integrated lemon
- Coarse oversea salt
- 250 grams (9 ounces) uncooked lumaconi (large snail-shaped pasta, such arsenic these)
- 150 grams (1 1/2 cups) freshly grated cheese, specified arsenic Comté aliases Parmesan
Instructions
- Preheat nan oven to 200°C (400°F).
- On a rimmed baking sheet, put nan butternut successful a azygous layer. Drizzle pinch oliva lipid and sprinkle pinch 1 spoon salt. Mix pinch your hands to overgarment well.
- Insert successful nan oven and roast for 30 minutes, until tender.
- Process successful a blender aliases nutrient mill until smooth. This tin beryllium prepared up to a time ahead, aliases moreover frozen. Thaw earlier using.
- Measure 500 grams (2 cups) of nan butternut purée into a mean mixing vessel (reserve nan remaining purée for different use). Add nan chestnuts, parsley, and 1/2 spoon salt. Grate nan zest of nan citrus finely into nan vessel and operation thoroughly.
- In a ample saucepan, bring h2o to nan boil pinch immoderate coarse brackish and a drizzle of oliva oil. Add nan lumaconi and boil until conscionable awkward of al dente, astir 10 minutes.
- Drain, return to nan saucepan, drizzle pinch oliva oil, and shingle to overgarment truthful they won't instrumentality to 1 different arsenic you work.
- Grease a information 25-cm (10-inch) baking crockery aliases cast-iron cookware pinch oliva oil.
- Increase nan oven somesthesia to 220°C (425°F).
- Spoon astir 1 tablespoonful of nan filling into each lumaconi, and put successful nan prepared dish, snugly but successful a azygous layer. When you're done, dot nan apical of nan lumaconi pinch immoderate remaining sauce.
- Sprinkle pinch grated food and cook for 20 minutes, until nan apical is browned successful places.
- Squeeze immoderate citrus juice complete nan apical and serve, pinch a lightly dressed greenish salad, aliases arsenic a broadside to roast chicken.
First, hole nan filling.
Next, navigator nan pasta.
Assemble and bake.
Notes
- If you person entree to high-quality, ready-made puréed wintertime squash, you tin usage that successful a pinch.
- This look tin beryllium made pinch different kinds of large, stuffable pasta, specified arsenic conduit pasta aliases conchiglioni.
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