Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese. The BEST vegan mac and cheese you'll ever taste! Made with wholesome ingredients like roasted pumpkin and cashews, but super creamy and indulgent. Pumpkin puree adds savoriness and creaminess to cheesy macaroni.

I grew up on my Italian grandmother's. Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese Recipe: Nuggets of pumpkin are nestled in a super creamy, super cheesy sauce for the ultimate fall comfort food. Easy dreamy creamy one pot stovetop pumpkin mac and cheese, no pasta draining necessary.

Hello everybody, I hope you're having an amazing day today. Today, we're going to make a special dish, creamy pumpkin mac & cheese. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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The BEST vegan mac and cheese you'll ever taste! Made with wholesome ingredients like roasted pumpkin and cashews, but super creamy and indulgent. Pumpkin puree adds savoriness and creaminess to cheesy macaroni.

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

The ingredients needed to make Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese:

{Make ready 360 g of rigatoni.
{Make ready 2 of onions, finely chopped.
{Take 3 cloves of garlic, minced.
{Prepare 4 tsp of paprika powder.
{Make ready 4 tsp of dried thyme.
{Take 1 of small (600 g) pumpkin, cubed.
{Prepare 300 ml of vegetable broth.
{Take 300 g of spinach.
{Make ready 100 g of grated cheddar.
{Take 150 g of grated old cheese.
{Take to taste of salt and pepper.
{Prepare of pumpkin seeds (optional garnish).

One pot pumpkin mac and cheese is my new fall favorite meal and maybe it will be yours too. Mac and Cheese is my favorite comfort food dish. I often make Broccoli Mac and Cheese, but for the Fall I love this Pumpkin version. Using pumpkin puree makes a creamy light cheese sauce, without.

Instructions to make Creamy Pumpkin Mac & Cheese:

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..
Cut the onion into half rings. Crush or chop the garlic..
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..
Puree with a hand blender. Add a splash of milk or some cooking water if the sauce is too thick..
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..
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..
Meanwhile, heat a frying pan, without oil, over medium heat and roast the pumpkin seeds until they start to pop. Use to garnish..
Enjoy! :).

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