Pasta and pumpkin light, easy recipe

Pasta and pumpkin

Pasta and pumpkin in my opinion is an absolutely delicious meal. Maybe I love it because pumpkin is sweet and I do have a sweet tooth or maybe because of the orange colour which makes me very happy! Pasta and pumpkin has been one of my favourite dishes since I was very little: my mum used to prepare it only for the “girls” of the family, my sister-in-law, herself and me, as the “men” of the family disliked it. And at today I am in the same situation… my boys here at home don’t like pumpkin, so I prepare it just for me as a light meal I can have when I eat by myself.

Pumpkin is nice with pasta but also with rice, the preparation is exactly the same. As a matter of fact you will see that in this recipe I cook the pasta as it was rice. This method of cooking pasta as rice is called “risottatura” in Italian and I use it to cook all sort of pasta dishes, mainly with legumes and vegetables. You will discover more in the future as I will write more recipes…

Pasta and pumpkin – the recipe

Information

Type: Pasta Portions: 1 Preparation time: 5 min Cooking time: 25 min Difficulty: easy

Weight Watchers ProPoints per portion: 6