Baked Rigatoni in a Creamy Tomatillo Sauce with Borlotti, Kale & Butternut Squash

Serves 6

Ingredients:

• 1.2 kg Crown Prince, butternut squash or pumpkin, peeled, deseeded and cut into chunks
• 3 red onions, cut into wedges
• 6 garlic cloves, 2 bashed to a paste, 4 bashed and left whole
• 1 dried chilli, crumbled, or a few pinches dried chilli flakes
• ½ bunch sage, leaves picked
• 5 tbsp olive oil, plus extra to drizzle
• 300g kale, destemmed and roughly chopped
• 500g rigatoni
• 400g ricotta-style vegan cheese
• 125g grated parmesan-style cheese, plus extra to sprinkle
• 400g cooked borlotti beans

For the tomatillo salsa:

• 1 x 2.8kg tinned tomatillos
• 100g coriander
• 3 cloves garlic
• A thumb of ginger
• A bunch of spring onions
• 60g serrano or jalapeno chillies
• 1-2 tbsp maple syrup
• 120ml lime juice
• Vegan cream to stir through

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/gas 7. Place the squash, red onions, garlic, chilli and sage in a roasting tray, season generously, then drizzle over the oil and mix well with your hands so that every bit of squash is coated. Put in the oven for 30-40 minutes, shaking the tray occasionally, until the squash is a little crisp and the onions are caramelised.
2. Bring a pan of salted water to boil and cook the kale until tender. Remove with a slotted spoon and leave to drain in a colander. Bring the water back up to the boil and cook the rigatoni for a couple of minutes less than it says on the packet, so that it is still a little firm to the bite.
3. Squeeze any remnants of water from the kale and finely chop. Stir the ricotta-style cheese and half the parmesan-style cheese together with a fork, season well and stir half through the kale.
4. To make the tomatillo salsa roast the garlic, ginger, chillies and spring onion at 300c for around 8 minutes. Blitz with the rest of the ingredients and then stir through the cream.
5. Drain the pasta, reserving a cup of the cooking liquid and return to the pan. Stir in the kale and borlotti and add the tomatillo cream so that you have a deliciously wet sauce coating the pasta. Empty into a big baking dish and scatter over the roasted squash, tomatoes and sage. Dollop over the remaining ricotta-style mixture, pushing it down into the pasta.
6. Sprinkle the pasta with and the rest of the parmesan-style cheese, drizzle with a little oil and bake for 20 minutes until the parmesan has melted and the top is golden brown.

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