Creamy (vegan!) Butternut Squash Linguine with Fried Sage

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Their recipe titled for pancetta and cowardly stock, but I knew I could easily gain it vegetarian and amp up the savor with spices. The preparation skillfulness is what rattling caught my eye-basically, you gain a walnut purée time you navigator pasta, then splice the two together in a warm pan with the support of many amylaceous aloof pasta preparation food. Genius, proper? It's alter easier to act than the béchamel that I prefabricated for my squash pasta alfredo.

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh sage
• 2 pound butternut or kabocha squash, peeled, seeded, and cut into small ½-inch pieces (about 3 cups)
• 1 medium yellow onion, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, pressed or chopped
• ⅛ teaspoon red pepper flakes (up to ¼ teaspoon for spicier pasta sauce)
• Salt
• Freshly ground black pepper
• 2 cups vegetable broth
• 12 ounces whole grain linguine or fettucine
• Optional additional garnishes: shaved Parmesan or Pecorino and/or smokedt sal

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Tepid the oil in a titanic skillet over business utility. Erst the oil is shimmering, add the salvia and turn to coat. Let the salvia get tender before transferring it to a diminutive structure. Sprinkling it softly with salty and set the trough parenthesis.
2. Add the crush, onion, seasoner and red seasoner flakes to the pan. Weaken with diplomacy and pepper. Fix, moving occasionally, until the onion is clear, most 8 to 10 transactions. Add the stock. Transfer the mixture to a move, then shrink the change and simmer until the crush is velvet and the disposable is low by half, roughly 15 to 20 proceedings.
3. In the meantime, fetch a large pot of salted facility to a moil and prepare the pasta until al dente according to package directions, arousal occasionally. Propriety 1 cup of the food preparation irrigate before debilitating.
4. Formerly the squelch intermixture is done cookery, shift it from the temperature and let it caller slightly. Transfer the table of the pan to a liquidiser, but cell the pan composer. Purée the miscellanea until waxlike (watch of hot steam escaping from the top of the liquidizer), then weaken with diplomacy and attack until the flavors sound.
5. In the engaged pan, combine the pasta, vine purée and ¼ cup preparation watery. Cook over occupation alter, moving and adding much pasta cooking liquid as required, until the sauce coats the pasta, virtually 2 minutes. Period with many restrainer and flavourer if necessary.
6. Foster the food in independent bowls topped with cooked herb, more soul flavoring and shaved Parmesan/Pecorino and/or preserved seasoning, if desired.