I have developed my butternut squash pasta dish & added some chicken meatballs (With some delicious grated carrot in)
This is a really delicious dish, that is very popular at out house 🙂
We eat a lot of chicken.
We have it as meatballs, whole roasted, oven roasted breast etc.
It is more healthy than red meat & it just tastes great.
Butternut squash is a pumpkin
Butternut squash er is a pumpkin .. And pumpkins are really healthy ♥
They are beautiful, colourful & healthy. What’s not to like? 🙂
Pumpkins are really filling, but actually only contains 18 calories pr. 100 grams 🙂
You will also keep a great blood sugar level, as they only contain very few carbohydrates.
Pumpkins contains a lot of folate (Folic) & if you consume 300 grams pumpkin a day, you will cover haldf of your daily intake of folate.
Pumpkins also contains A,B,C – vitamins & potassium.
Recipe
Yield: 2 persons
Ingredients:
- 70 grams of baby spinach
- 1 chili
- ½ liter cream or soycream
- 1 lemon
- 10 – 12 tbsp butternut squash puré
- 2 clove of garlic
- 500 grams of fresh pasta
- Parsley
- Parmesan
Chicken meatballs:
- 400 – 500 grams of ground chicken
- 1 big egg
- 4 tbsp breadcrumbs (Maybe a bit more)
- 1 small yellow onion
- 1 big carrot
- 1 clove of garlic
- Salt
How to make it:
- Wash & chop the chili
- Peel & chop the garlic
- Wash the spinach
- Wash & chop the parsley
- Grate the lemon zest finely – so that you have 1 tbsp of lemon zest
- heat up a deep pan
- Pour on some oil & fry garlic & chili
- Add in the cream
- Bring to a boil, and let it simmer
- Add lemon zest & butternut aquash puré – Mix it & let it simme for a bit
- Add the spinac. Let it simmer & let the spinch leaves collapse
- The sauce should have a lightly thickened consistency
- Season with salt & pepper og perhaps some more lemon zest
- Cook the pasta – Pour it into a colander & put the pasta back in the pot
- Add the creamsauce to the pasta & mix it well
- Serve in bowls with chicken meat balls and sprinkle with chopped parsley & grated parmesan
Chicken meatballs:
- Wash the carrots & dice it
- Peel onion & garlic
- Add carrot, onion & galic to a mini chopper/foodprocessor
- Stir ground chicken with salt, until it becomes a form substance
- Add the carrot mixture, breadcrumbs & egg
- Mix it all very well
- Sculp the meat, to round balls
- Fry on a pan in butter, until they are done
Other recipes with pumpkin
⇒ Halloween muffins
⇒ Pumpkin soup
