This seasonally updated classic dish is what happens when you have a bottle of vodka in one hand and your favorite carb in the other. Hello pasta alla vodka! The vodka brings the sauce together and makes it one of my favorite comfort food recipes. This oven roasted butternut squash alla vodka pasta has so much flavor and is super creamy. This recipe will definitely get a thumbs up from anyone you will be serving. Dining alone? No problem, tastes even better straight from the pan with the big salad spoon. Trust me, I tried it out cold from the pan after getting home from work somewhere around midnight.
This oven roasted butternut squash alla vodka pasta gets most of it’s flavor from oven roasted squash and roasted garlic. The real secret is the breadcrumbs scattered over the pasta. You can absolutely skip those, but I would not suggest that. Because everyone has a few slices of stale baguette or bread lying around somewhere in the kitchen. And these garlic breadcrumbs are perfect for this. And not to mention the zero waste aspect of it all.
Since we are well into pumpkin season, but I am nowhere near the end of my recipes for this beautiful vegetable. I had to make this roasted butternut squash alla vodka pasta. Of course you can use store bought pumpkin puree and skip all the wonderful flavors that are on this pan right here. The butternut squash and a whole head of garlic gets the ultimate flavor bomb treatment in the oven. Just look at that browned crispiness. Put all of this in a bowl and blend with an immersion blender or throw in the food processor and pulse together. Now that is pumpkin puree that I can get behind.
This is a quite simple dish. It may seem like a lot of different steps but at the end it comes together beautifully. For my recipe I used fresh homemade pasta, but you can easily use fresh store bought pasta or dry one. Alla vodka sauce is often served with penne, but in reality you can pair it with anything. Today was a Spaghetti kinda day. Boiled pasta is tossed with the sauce, placed on the plate or in a bowl and then generously sprinkled with garlic breadcrumbs. I could stuff my face with this beautiful noodle concoction any given day.
In case you want to go another pumpkin pasta direction I highly suggest you try these
Pumpkin season is one of my favorite times of the year. Butternut squash is so versatile and relatively cheap. I like to buy it whole and the use it for 2-3 recipes depending on how pumpkin forward they are.
