Stuffed Lumaconi with Butternut Squash and Chestnuts Recipe

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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!”

Stuffed Lumaconi pinch Butternut and Chestnuts - Ingredients

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.

Stuffed Lumaconi pinch Butternut and Chestnuts - Stuffing

You sprinkle nan full point pinch food truthful it will brownish nicely…

Stuffed Lumaconi pinch Butternut and Chestnuts - Sprinkling

… 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.)

Stuffed Lumaconi pinch Butternut and Chestnuts - Closeup

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

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

    First, hole nan filling.

  1. Preheat nan oven to 200°C (400°F).
  2. 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.
  3. Insert successful nan oven and roast for 30 minutes, until tender.
  4. Process successful a blender aliases nutrient mill until smooth. This tin beryllium prepared up to a time ahead, aliases moreover frozen. Thaw earlier using.
  5. 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.
  6. Next, navigator nan pasta.

  7. 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.
  8. Drain, return to nan saucepan, drizzle pinch oliva oil, and shingle to overgarment truthful they won't instrumentality to 1 different arsenic you work.
  9. Assemble and bake.

  10. Grease a information 25-cm (10-inch) baking crockery aliases cast-iron cookware pinch oliva oil.
  11. Increase nan oven somesthesia to 220°C (425°F).
  12. 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.
  13. Sprinkle pinch grated food and cook for 20 minutes, until nan apical is browned successful places.
  14. Squeeze immoderate citrus juice complete nan apical and serve, pinch a lightly dressed greenish salad, aliases arsenic a broadside to roast chicken.

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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Stuffed Lumaconi pinch Butternut and Chestnuts