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Roasted Feta Harvest Vegetable Pasta Dish

Ingredients

  • 2-16 oz bags butternut squash
  • 1 block feta cheese
  • 1 onion
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 3 teaspoons minced garlic
  • 1 lb turkey breakfast sausage
  • 1 zucchini or yellow squash
  • 10 oz bag frozen chopped spinach
  • 1 can pumpkin puree not pie filling
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 16 oz. box of penne or rigatoni noodles - or Spaghetti Squash

Instructions

  • Preheat Oven to 400.
  • Prepare Spaghetti Squash if using instead of dried pasta. (begin the cooking process on the spaghetti squash before you start roasting vegetables)
  • Set out the frozen spinach.
  • Add butternut squash to a baking dish.
  • Cook squash in the oven for 10 minutes.
  • Start boiling water for the pasta (remember you will save a cup of the pasta water for the sauce).
  • Shred or chop the zucchini into ½ inch pieces and set aside.
  • Brown turkey sausage in a large skillet, then drain on a paper towel-lined plate.
  • Remove baking dish from oven and make a hole in the middle.
  • Add feta cheese block to the middle of the baking dish.
  • Add the zucchini around the cheese.
  • Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle, salt, pepper and thyme on top of the cheese.
  • Place baking dish back in the oven and cook for 20 minutes.
  • Chop the onion into small pieces.
  • Cook the onion with the butter until it becomes translucent.
  • Add garlic and cook until fragrant.
  • Add the spinach and stir until nothing is frozen.
  • Add the can of pumpkin and 1 cup of pasta water.
  • Stir everything together and let it come to a simmer.
  • Add the cooked sausage.
  • Remove the squash and cheese from the oven.
  • Immediately stir them together so the melty cheese and vegetables combine.
  • Depending on your baking dish and skillet size, combine them together into one dish.
  • Serve on top of the pasta or go ahead and mix everything together.