Seasonal local food recipe No.307 – Squash, ricotta and sage pasta bake
My husband found this recipe on the BBC Good Food website. It was tasty served with a green salad on the side.
Serves 6
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
Ingredients
1 squash, weighing about 1kg, chopped into chunks
2 tbsp olive oil
200 ml tub crème fraiche
50 g finely grated parmesan cheese
250 g tub ricotta cheese
small bunch sage leaves, half chopped, half whole
12 sheets fresh lasagne
Method
Heat the oven to 220°C/Gas mark 7. Toss the squash together with the olive oil in a roasting tin. Roast the squash for 30 minutes until soft and golden. While the squash is roasting, mix the crème fraiche with half the parmesan, then set aside.
When the squash is ready, leave to cool slightly, then peel the skin away from the flesh. In a separate bowl beat the ricotta with the chopped sage and the remaining parmesan and fold through the squash with some seasoning, trying not to break it up too much.
Assemble the bake by spreading a little of the crème fraiche mix over a gratin dish. Then lay some of the lasagne sheets over and splodge some of the ricotta and squash mix over the pasta with more crème fraiche. Use all the ricotta mix to fill the bake, but make sure you keep some crème fraiche for the top.
Finally spread the crème fraiche over the top layer of lasagne, then scatter with the whole sage leaves. Bake for 25 minutes until bubbling and golden, then serve cut into squares.
