This Chicken and Roast Pumpkin Pasta bake is topped with a delicious cheese breadcrumb.
This pasta bake is a delicious way to use up some left over Christmas turkey meat. A creamy and very flavoursome roast pumpkin, spinach and turkey pasta bake. This bake made enough for our family of 5 plus left overs for the next day. Serve with salad and you can easily stretch it out to feed 10.
During the year you can substitute chicken for turkey.
I love roast pumpkin, whenever I make some I do extra so I can add it to salad for lunch the next day.
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Roast Pumpkin, Spinach & Turkey Pasta Bake
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 8-10 1x
Ingredients
- 1/2 butternut pumpkin, peeled and diced
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 500g Trivelli pasta (whatever you have in pantry)
- 2 cups cooked turkey, shredded
- 3 rashers shortcut bacon, diced
- 70g butter
- 1/2 cup plain flour
- 4 cups milk
- 1 tablespoon chicken stock powder
- 1 1/2 cup tasty cheese, grated
- 100g baby spinach leaves
- 1/2 cup panko breadcrumbs
- 1/2 cup parmesan cheese, grated
- salt and pepper, to season
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C, fan forced.
- Place pumpkin onto a large baking try, toss in 2 tablespoons olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Bake pumpkin in oven for 30 minutes or until golden, allow to cool slightly.
- Cook pasta following packet directions, drain and place back into saucepan.
- Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan add remaining 2 tablespoons of oil and fry bacon until golden, place onto a plate lined with a paper towel.
- Using same saucepan, melt the butter on medium-high.
- Once butter is foaming add flour stirring for 1 minute, remove from heat.
- Gradually pour in milk, whisking to combine milk and butter mixture.
- Add in cheese, stock powder and season with salt and pepper.
- Return to heat, stirring for 5 minutes or until slightly thickened.
- Add to your saucepan of pasta the turkey, spinach, bacon and sauce, mix until well combined.
- Pour half of the pasta mixture into a large casserole dish, then spoon on half of the roast pumpkin, stir through gently. Then top with remaining pasta and pumpkin.
- Sprinkle on panko breadcrums and parmesan cheese.
- Bake in oven for 30 minutes or until cheese has melted and golden.
Notes
Alternatively, you can use left over Christmas ham instead of bacon, no need to fry and brown.
- Prep Time: 30 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins
- Category: Dinner, Christmas
