Butternut Squash Pasta with Tomato Sauce

Ingredients:

Butternut Squash
Flour
Yellow Tomatoes
Onion
Pinenuts
Garlic
Basil
Oregano

Step 1:

For the pasta, I cut the butternut squash in to cubes and steamed it.

Step 2:

Puree the squash. I left the rind on when steaming because it was easier to remove after the fact.

Step 3:

Puree until very smooth.

Step 4:

Start with 1 cup of squash puree and 1 cup of flour. Your results will very depending on how wet your squash was.

Step 5:

Viola! A ball of dough. Took about 1 minute to make.

Step 6:

Lots of flour on the counter is the key here. But next time, I'm so borrowing my aunt's pasta mill. Rolling pins are a pain.

Step 7:

Use your pasta mill to make strands of pasta:

Cook the pasta to al dente.

Step 8:

The pasta needed a sauce. The butternut squash wasn't as sweet as I had expected but the tomatoes were quite sweet, so I made a tomato based sauce.

First, saute onion in olive oil.

Step 9:

Add pinenuts and garlic. Brown.

Step 10:

Add chopped tomato. Season with basil and oregano.

Step 11:

Serve your Butternut Squash Pasta.