Butternut Squash Pasta Bake

This butternut squash pasta with cottage cheese is a vegetarian take on lasagne, warm and comforting it is full of flavour.

Course: Family Dinner Ideas

Cuisine: New Zealand

Keyword: Butternut Squash Pasta, Butternut Squash Lasagne, Butternut cottage cheese pasta

Servings: servings

Calories: 522kcal

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Halve a butternut squash by slicing length ways, scoop out the seeds with a spoon. Drizzle with olive oil Bake for 30-45 mins until very tender. (I usually do this step the day before, say if I am cooking a roast chicken for dinner).
Mash the roasted butternut, with the cottage cheese, chives and salt and pepper.
Lay your pasta sheets out on a benchtop, spread your butternut cottage cheese pasta filling over the pasta sheets, leaving ¼ of the sheet uncovered with the filling, and then roll into long sausages.

Heat the olive oil in a fry pan.
Sauté the onion and garlic until fragrant
Add the passata, oregano and thyme, simmer for 15 minutes until the sauce has reduced and thickened.
Season to taste with salt and pepper

Heat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius (360 F)
Pour ¼ of the red sauce into the bottom of a baking dish.
Lay the stuffed pasta rolls on top of the sauce in the baking dish.
Top with the remaining red sauce, grated cheese and pepitas.
Bake in your preheated oven for 35 minutes until the pasta is cooked, and the cheese is melted and golden.

This recipe is suitable for freezing in an airtight container for up to four months.
You can also use the butternut cottage cheese mixture to stuff giant pasta shells or layer as a traditional lasagne if you would prefer.
Butternut Squash: This can be substituted for pumpkin
Cottage cheese: This can be substituted for ricotta cheese. You can also use cottage cheese that is already flavored with chives if you prefer.
Lasagne sheets: I use fresh pasta sheets so that I don't need to pre-cook them. But you can parboil dried pasta sheets if you would prefer. I have also made this recipe with gluten-free lasagne sheets and it worked well.
Passata: Passata is another name for tomato purée