Steps to Make Super Quick Homemade Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, creamy pumpkin mac & cheese. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have creamy pumpkin mac & cheese using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese:

1. Get rigatoni
2. Take onions, finely chopped
3. Get garlic, minced
4. Take paprika powder
5. Make ready dried thyme
6. Take small (600 g) pumpkin, cubed
7. Take vegetable broth
8. Prepare spinach
9. Prepare grated cheddar
10. Make ready grated old cheese
11. Prepare salt and pepper
12. Prepare pumpkin seeds (optional garnish)

Instructions to make Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese:

1. Boil plenty of water in a saucepan with a lid for the rigatoni and cook the rigatoni, covered, for 13-15 minutes. Then drain but keep some of the cooking water. Leave to steam without a lid.
2. Cut the onion into half rings. Crush or chop the garlic.
3. Heat the olive oil in a saucepan with a lid over medium heat and fry the onion, garlic and paprika powder for 2 - 3 minutes. Add the pumpkin cubes and the dried thyme and stir fry for 4 - 6 minutes. Deglaze with the stock and cook, covered, 8-11 minutes, or until the pumpkin cubes are soft.
4. Puree with a hand blender. Add a splash of milk or some cooking water if the sauce is too thick.
5. Add the spinach, 3/4 of the cheddar, 3/4 of the old cheese and the rigatoni to the pumpkin sauce and stir well. Season with salt and pepper and heat for 1 minute more.
6. Transfer in an oven dish and sprinkle with the remaining cheese. Bake the pasta dish in the oven for 10 - 15 minutes, or until the top is nicely browned.
7. Meanwhile, heat a frying pan, without oil, over medium heat and roast the pumpkin seeds until they start to pop. Use to garnish.
8. Enjoy! :)

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