Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, creamy pumpkin mac & cheese. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The BEST vegan mac and cheese you'll ever taste! Made with wholesome ingredients like roasted pumpkin and cashews, but super creamy and indulgent. Pumpkin puree adds savoriness and creaminess to cheesy macaroni.
Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have creamy pumpkin mac & cheese using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese:
- Take 360 g rigatoni
- Prepare 2 onions, finely chopped
- Prepare 3 cloves garlic, minced
- Take 4 tsp paprika powder
- Make ready 4 tsp dried thyme
- Prepare 1 small (600 g) pumpkin, cubed
- Take 300 ml vegetable broth
- Get 300 g spinach
- Take 100 g grated cheddar
- Prepare 150 g grated old cheese
- Prepare to taste salt and pepper
- Prepare pumpkin seeds (optional garnish)
Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese Recipe: Nuggets of pumpkin are nestled in a super creamy, super cheesy sauce for the ultimate fall comfort food. Mac and Cheese is my favorite comfort food dish. I often make Broccoli Mac and Cheese, but for the Fall I love this Pumpkin version. Using pumpkin puree makes a creamy light cheese sauce, without.
Steps to make Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese:
- Boil plenty of water in a saucepan with a lid for the rigatoni and cook the rigatoni, covered, for 13-15 minutes. Then drain but keep some of the cooking water. Leave to steam without a lid.
- Cut the onion into half rings. Crush or chop the garlic.
- Heat the olive oil in a saucepan with a lid over medium heat and fry the onion, garlic and paprika powder for 2 - 3 minutes. Add the pumpkin cubes and the dried thyme and stir fry for 4 - 6 minutes. Deglaze with the stock and cook, covered, 8-11 minutes, or until the pumpkin cubes are soft.
- Puree with a hand blender. Add a splash of milk or some cooking water if the sauce is too thick.
- Add the spinach, 3/4 of the cheddar, 3/4 of the old cheese and the rigatoni to the pumpkin sauce and stir well. Season with salt and pepper and heat for 1 minute more.
- Transfer in an oven dish and sprinkle with the remaining cheese. Bake the pasta dish in the oven for 10 - 15 minutes, or until the top is nicely browned.
- Meanwhile, heat a frying pan, without oil, over medium heat and roast the pumpkin seeds until they start to pop. Use to garnish.
- Enjoy! :)
Easy dreamy creamy one pot stovetop pumpkin mac and cheese, no pasta draining necessary. One pot pumpkin mac and cheese is my new fall favorite meal and maybe it will be yours too. But maybe that's not what you picture when you hear mac 'n' cheese? The dish has been modified in many ways over time! Hy everybody, in this video, I show you how to easily make a creamy pumpkin Mac & Cheese.
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