Simple Recipes to Use Up Leftover Squash

This recipe for vegan sausage & squash pasta (The First Mess) is made with wholesome ingredients, along with some vegan sausages.

Before cooking, read up on food safety for people & pets.

Squash is wonderful to make creamy sauces for pasta, but many people are put off, as it’s so difficult to cut. In fact, a good knife is likely the answer, ensure a damp cloth is underneath your chopping board to keep things steady. Trim off both ends, cut through the middle and then remove the seeds. You can roast it first to soften the skin, before chopping up.

You can now buy plastic-free pasta grown with British wheat from The Yorkshire Pasta Co and Northern Pasta Co. Top with vegan Parmesan (conventional Parmesan is not even vegetarian as it contains a cheese made with calf rennet).

A Vegan ‘Squash Mac & Cheese’ Recipe

Also try this Vegan Mac & Cheese (Ela Vegan) which again uses squash to replace the creaminess of cheese or cream.

Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce

This butternut squash pasta sauce (Broke Bank Vegan) is a rich and creamy sauce that will make you a fan of butternut squash, which is kind of like ‘nature’s candy’ as it tastes just like butterscotch when it’s cooked.

The vegetable is combined with garlic, shallots, fresh herbs and red pepper flakes, along with soaked cashews (for the ‘creamy base’) and nutritional yeast (makes things taste cheesy).