Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce Recipe (2024)

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Dave’s Gourmet butternut squash pasta sauce recipe

Ever since my family discovereddave’s gourmet butternut squash pasta sauce recipe we have been hugefans! It is delicious and nutritious.If you’ve never tried it – trust me you’ll love Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce! Not only is it super flavorful and just a hint of natural sweeetness, but it is super healthy too! However, the bottle of sells for $6 at Target. So I set out to create my own Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce Recipe and I am happy to report – I did it. And it is delicious.

Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce

Increase the flavor and vitamins and minerals by using butternut squash as the base for your tomato sauce recipe. Not only will it add a slightly sweet rich flavor, but the health factor just sky rocketed. They are a great source of fiber and vitamins A, C, E and B plus minerals such as calcium, magnesium, and zinc. Plus it’s loaded with disease fighting antioxidants that protect against conditions like cancer, heart disease, and mental decline.

How to Cook Butternut Squash

Butternut squash has been such a popular food you can now buy it frozen cubed, fresh cubed in produce, or in ready to steam packs already split. But you can always cook a butternut squash easily on your own too. The squash themselves are easy to grow in your garden, or last a long time if you pick them up fresh from the groery storey. Plus you can cook them easily yourself so let me show you how to cook a butternut squash.

First cut the butternut squash in half.

Next scoop our the seeds in the small cavity.

Now you can cook it in the oven by baking it at 375 for 45 minutes, but we prefer to get our squash cooked quickly by covering it with plastic wrap and cook for 8-10 minutes in the microwave.

Dave’s gourmet butternut squash

In a large pot over medium heat melt 2-3 Tablespoons butter and add the following vegetables to cook until soft:

1/2 chopped red or yellow pepper
1 medium chopped onion
2-3 cloves of garlic
3 stalks of celery

Now scoop out the cooked butternut squash into the pan.

Add 8 oz can of tomato paste

Dave’s gourmet butternut squash pasta sauce

Your homemade Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce will make 2x the quantity of the store bought jar, tastes better, and costs a whole lot less!

The smooth creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce on the left is the homemade one. The sauce to the right is some from Dave’s Gourmet.

You”ll find that this sauce will go a long way with your pasta. Plus you have 1 jar to eat for today’s meal and 1 jar to save for a lunch or later dinner – score!

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Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce Recipe

Beth Gorden

This flavorful, creamy sauce tastes fantastic and is super healthy too! Your family is going to love this Butternut Squash pasta sauce that is just like Dave's gourmet Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce, but better and cheaper!

4.50 from 4 votes

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Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Ingredients

1 medium butternut squash
2-3 tablespons butter
1 medium red or yellow pepper, chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
2-3 cloves garlic, minced
3 stalks celery
8 ounces tomato paste
3 cups water
1/4 cup heavy whipping cream or milk
1 teaspoon sugar or maple syrup
dash salt & pepper
1/2 teaspoon Cayenne Pepper
1 teaspoon parsley
1 teaspoon oregano
1 box pasta of choice, cooked

Instructions

First cut a butternut squash in half, scoop out the seeds, cover with plastic wrap and cook in the microwave for 8-10 minutes.
In a large pot over medium heat melt butter. Then add pepper, onion, garlic, and stalks of celery and cook 5 minutes or until vegetables are slightly tender.
Using a spoon, scoop the cooked butternut squash into the pan; add tomato paste and stir.
Stir and add 3 cups water, ) heavy whipping cream or milk, and sugar.
Next season your pasta sauce with Salt & Pepper to taste, cayenne pepper, parsley, and oregano. Cook 5-10 minutes to let flavors combine.
Serve over cooked pasta for a healthy, light, flavorful sauce your family will love!

Beth Gorden

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! She has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids ABCs, science, English grammar, history, math, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables - www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!