Pumpkin Alfredo Sauce Pasta has the best flavors of fall in a delicious and healthy dish! I used gluten-free pasta in this easy creamy dish, but any pasta works. I’ve even got a dairy-free and vegan option. SO good!
Confession: While I like pumpkin, I've never been quite as crazy as the rest of the blogger world about it. Yes, I cook with it. But it isn't like I've been counting down the days until it was officially pumpkin season.
That just changed.
This Pasta with Pumpkin Alfredo sauce is without question the best alfredo pasta I've ever made. It also falls into the top five pasta dishes I've ever made, and the only one in that category that I would consider healthy.
Healthy Alfredo Pasta? Sounds pretty impossible.
But when you use my quinoa cream, you've got a lighter pasta dish that the whole family is going to adore. (And if you don't have time to make quinoa cream, you can always use half-and-half.)
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Pumpkin Alfredo Sauce Pasta
Ingredients
- 12 ounces pasta gluten free
- 1 tablespoon butter or Earth Balance
- 1 shallot chopped
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 1 tablespoon gluten free flour
- 1 ½ cups quinoa cream or half and half
- ¾ cup pumpkin puree
- 1 cup Parmesan or â…“ cup nutritional yeast and â…“ cup vegan parmesan
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- ½ teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to package directions. (Don’t forget the oil and salt in the water!)
- Meanwhile, heat butter in a large saucepan. Add shallot and cook for four minutes.
- Add garlic and cook for 30 seconds. Sprinkle with flour and stir to combine.
- Whisk in quinoa cream or half and half and bring to a simmer. Stir in pumpkin puree and cook for four minutes, until slightly thickened. Add Parmesan, salt and pepper and cook until the cheese is melted.
- To serve, drain pasta and immediately toss with sauce. Top with additional parmesan if desired.
Tracey
I always need recipes for the rest of that leftover can of pumpkin! This looks amazing and is delicious for Fall.
Bill Sweeney
That sounds delicious. I've never had pumpkin alfredo sauce before. I'd love to try it, though. I guess I'll have to make this!
Sheena Tatum
Pumpkin alfredo sauce sounds like a dream. Pasta is one of my favorite things ever and pumpkin ranks up there too.
Sara Welch
I love amazing meals like this that are unique. I love mixing things up and offering a new dish to my family.
Maureen
What a delicious idea to have a Fall type dish using pumpkin alfredo sauce with pasta. I am going to try this and see what I think, it's new and interesting perfect idea to give it a try!
Makeba Giles
This is a different take on using pumpkin! Not sure I'd make it, but I definitely wouldn't turn down a plate, and, if I like it, then I'd make it 🙂
Liz Mays
This is looking really good. We had a soup with a little bit of pumpkin in it last night. I would love to try alfredo with pumpkin next!
Pam
This sounds like the perfect fall meal. I love anything pumpkin.
kristi
Yum... I am going to pin this and try it soon. We had a bumper crop of Pumpkins so this is a great idea. Just need to get the GoGo Quinoa Supergrains Pasta next time I grocery shop.
Theresa
We love alfredo, but have never had a pumpkin version. This sounds like a must try! I really like that this dish can be done in just 35 minutes. That's a winner of a meal if I ever saw one!
Carol Cassara
You weren't kidding about the healthy part. I think it's really a must try especially since it's not your typical alfredo! I wouldn't mind eating this often at home.
AnnMarie John
Now now, doesn't this look amazing! The kids and I are huge fans of pasta but we tend to stay away from sauces that are made from milk because I have kids who are lactose intolerant. I wouldn't mind this one though! It's really healthy and good and it doesn't require milk.
Heather
Pumpkin everything! I love the flavors of fall, which is good because it's still 90 degrees so yummy foods are the only way you'd know it's not still summer. This pasta recipe sounds delightful.
Toni | Boulder Locavore
This looks really good! Perfect for dinner any night of the week!
Annemarie LeBlanc
Looks so pastalicious for me! I will save this recipe. I just love all these amazing pumpkin recipes I am seeing today. We'll be having this tonight. I will be just be home today and there will be lots of time for me to cook a hearty dinner.
Tracy @ Ascending Butterfly
I like the color orange, but mostly in leather jackets and handbags, I am not a big lover of pumpkin either, but I have never even thought of combining pumpkin with alfredo sauce before, I would like to taste this! 🙂
Pamela K Schilling
All these comments are from 2017. It is September 2020. I just discovered this recipe and it is a game changer! Creating a sauce from quinoa over cashews is brilliant and amazingly tasty. Loved the cheese sauce as vegan and will make it and share it again and again!° Thank.you Wendy Polisi!
Wendy Polisi
I am so glad that you enjoyed it!