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Butternut, spinach & tahini pasta

Butternut, spinach & tahini pasta

A lovely simple pasta dish, perfect for a tasty and nourishing mid-week dinner.

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  • Serves4
  • CourseMain meal
  • Prepare15 mins
  • Cook30 mins
  • Total time45 mins

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Ingredients

  • 1 golden butternut squash, peeled and diced into, 1.5cm cubes
  • 350g conchiglie rigate
  • 2 tbsp tahini
  • 2 clove/s garlic, roughly chopped
  • ½ lemon, juice
  • 5 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 115g packs baby spinach
  • 40g Parmigiano Reggiano, grated, to serve (or vegan hard cheese)
  • 4 sprig/s thyme, leaves only, roughly chopped
  • 2 tbsp pine nuts, toasted

Method

  1. Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil and rest a colander or steamer above the water level and add the butternut squash. Cover and cook for 30 minutes. Add the pasta to the water beneath for the final 12 minutes (keeping the lid on) then drain, reserving a cup of the cooking water. Return the pasta to the pan, off the heat. Set the butternut squash aside.

  2. In batches, add the butternut squash to a blender (or use a stick blender) and blend with the tahini, garlic, lemon juice, olive oil and 5 tbsp pasta cooking water.

  3. Add this mixture to the pan of pasta together with the spinach and return to a low heat to warm through, adding more of the reserved pasta water to loosen, if needed. Season with plenty of coarsely ground black pepper and stir through most of the thyme leaves and about half of the cheese and pine nuts. Divide between four bowls and top with the remaining cheese, pine nuts and thyme.

Nutritional

Typical values per serving when made using specific products in recipe

Energy

2,528kJ/ 602kcals

Fat

21g

Saturated Fat

4.1g

Carbohydrates

80g

Sugars

13g

Fibre

9.7g

Protein

20g

Salt

0.2g

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