![]() Next get out a stick of cold butter, I cut mine in half but you don’t have to. Next in a large mixing bowl add the cooked pasta, chicken sausage and roasted butternut squash. Then pour the pasta into the salted boiling water and cook, as the package directs, to al dente. Next measure out 3 cups of the orecchiette pasta. Then add them back into the same pan to brown and get all crispy again. Meanwhile sear up the chicken sausages on all sides. Just remember to put your oven mitts back on when you place them into the oven to cook. By doing this you shouldn’t have a problem with the squash sticking to the pan. Stick it back in the oven for 20 minutes or so until the squash is tender. Spread out the squash on to the hot pan, you should hear a little sizzle-sizzle. Now the trick I have for you here is to stick your pan in your oven while it’s preheating to 375 degrees. Toss the cubed squash in a bowl with salt, pepper and the tablespoon of dark brown sugar. ![]() Because my squash was so HUGE I just used the top portion and saved the rest for something else. Peel and cube up enough butternut squash to equal two cups or so. To get it done and out of the way, quickly toast the walnuts in a dry pan over medium heat until fragrant. The whole brown butter sage sauce and walnuts thing was all I could think about for weeks, and needed to pour it over something, and quick. I had the pasta for a while now… then a week ago, I spied these chicken sausages at the grocery store, so I threw them in the cart … then stumbled on the butternut squash at the farmers market down the road two days later. It is warm, toasty and smothered in butter with a hint of sage. This recipe really should be called Autumn-in-a-bowl. Right off the top of my head there’s these Lemongrass Squares and then there was this bbq pheasant recipe (which may have freaked some of you out but I totally love it). ![]() There are only a handful of recipes that make me close my eyes and moan while I eat them. Roasted Butternut Squash, Sausage and Orecchiette Pasta in a Brown Butter Sage Sauce is deliciously savory and easy to whip up! ![]()
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