Dinner

Smoky Bacon + Butternut Pasta Recipe

Dinner

Prep: 10 mins

Cook: 50 mins

Serves 4

Get the whole family around the dinner table. Enjoy this scrummy creeeamy pasta with butternut squash, smoky bacon and a sprinkle of sage!

Soy free Nut free

24+

Months

Ingredients

2 and 1/2 cups butternut squash diced

3/4 cup of water with the dissolved stock cube

1/4 cup cream cheese

3.5 oz smoked bacon

1 tsp dried sage

3 cups dried pasta

Method

1

Dice butternut squash into small cubes.
2

Place into a preheated oven at 375 degrees F on a lightly oiled tray.
3

Roast for 35 minutes stirring half way through.
4

Once roasted, put 2/3 of the roasted squash into a bowl with the sage.
5

Dissolve a stock cube in 200mls water and add this in.
6

Blend until smooth.
7

Add the mixture to a pan, add cream cheese and stir through on a low heat.
8

Cook 300g pasta as per packs instructions.
9

Grill bacon until cooked. Dice finely and add this to the sauce with the remaining chunks of squash (to reduce the salt level for little ones, remove adequate sized portion of sauce before adding the bacon).
10

Either mix cooked pasta into the sauce or pour over hot pasta.