Spice your day up with a tasty pumpkin pasta. This pasta sauce made using Hokkaido pumpkin and refined with soya, cashews and spicy gochujang paste will brighten and heat up cold Autumn days!
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Roast the walnuts in a pan until golden brown. Stir in the olive oil, thyme and 1 tablespoon of yeast flakes, continue to roast briefly and set aside.
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Wash the Hokkaido pumpkin, cut into bite-sized cubes and marinate together with one of the coarsely chopped onions, olive oil, salt and pepper. Bake at 180 degrees Celsius (fan oven) for around 25 minutes.
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Soak the minced soya in vegetable stock for a few minutes.
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Cook your favourite pasta.
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Blend the cashews with the water in a mixer to make cashew cream. Set half of the pumpkin aside and put the other half in the mixer and purée to a creamy sauce.
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Fry the second onion and garlic in a little olive oil. Add the gochujang, stir and fry briefly. If necessary, strain the soya and add it to the pan.
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Add the pumpkin sauce and stir everything well. Season to taste with mustard, salt and pepper and thicken/thin with pasta water and oat drink until the desired consistency is achieved.
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Stir the pasta into the sauce and top the plates with the remaining pumpkin, walnuts and fresh herbs, if desired.