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2024-05-18 05:02:18
Roasted Butternut Squash, Bacon, and Sage Tortellini
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Servings: 4
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 20 oz butternut squash, cut into cube
- 20 oz cheese tortellini
- 12 oz bacon, chopped
- Sage leaves
- Red pepper flakes
- 5 oz spinach
- 4 T bacon grease
Steps
- subheading: For the first night:
- Preheat oven 450°F.
- Toss butternut squash cubes with oil and salt and roast on a sheet-pan in a 450°F oven until squash is fork-tender and golden brown around the edges, 15 to 17 minutes. Put half of squash away for leftovers
- Meanwhile, boil the tortellini, putting half away for leftovers
- Fry up chopped bacon until crispy in a large skillet; transfer bacon to a paper towel-lined plate, leaving bacon fat in skillet. Put half of bacon and fat away for leftovers
- Add drained pasta to the fat in skillet along with some sage leaves and a pinch of crushed red pepper flakes (both optional!) and cook just until sage is fragrant and tortellini is ever so slightly crisped.
- Stir in roasted butternut squash and bacon, and serve. To add some greens, stir in a couple of handfuls of escarole or spinach along with the tortellini and wilt slightly in the hot bacon fat.
- subheading: For leftovers:
- Warm butternut squash.
- Heat bacon fat and add drained pasta to the fat in skillet along with some sage leaves and a pinch of crushed red pepper flakes (both optional!) and cook just until sage is fragrant and tortellini is ever so slightly crisped.
- Stir in roasted butternut squash and bacon, and serve. To add some greens, stir in a couple of handfuls of escarole or spinach along with the tortellini and wilt slightly in the hot bacon fat.