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Witch's Spinach Pasta

10 min prep · 20 min cook · Easy · 4 servings
Italian🎃 Halloween
Green spinach pasta nestles in a pumpkin-orange sauce, topped with playful black olive spiders for a Halloween-ready supper.

Ingredients
12 oz dried spinach fettuccine→make it yourself
1 tablespoon olive oil→
2 garlic cloves, minced→
1 cup plain pumpkin puree→
1/2 cup heavy cream→
1/3 cup finely grated Parmesan→make it yourself
1/4 teaspoon salt, plus more for the pasta water→
Black pepper, to taste→
8 pitted black olives, 4 halved lengthwise for bodies and 4 sliced into thin strips for legs→
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Method
1
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
2
Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat.
3
Add the garlic to the skillet.
4
Cook the garlic until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
5
Stir in the pumpkin puree.
6
Stir in the heavy cream.
7
Simmer the sauce gently for 5 minutes.
8
Stir in the Parmesan.
9
Season the sauce with salt and black pepper.
10
Cook the fettuccine in the boiling water according to the package directions.
11
Reserve 1/2 cup of pasta water.
12
Drain the fettuccine.
13
Stir a splash of pasta water into the pumpkin sauce if it is too thick.
14
Toss the fettuccine with the sauce.
15
Twirl the pasta into nests on serving plates.
16
Arrange olive halves on top as spider bodies.
17
Place olive strips beside each body as spider legs.

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