Pumpkin Rigatoni With Rosemary Walnut Crispies Recipe

comment icon 187 more comments This pumpkin pasta is especially here for you if you enjoy:

Fall flavors Warm, toasty things Rosemary and garlic and butter Foods with contrasting silky / crispy texture Pumpkin as a life theme Big floppy rigatoni noodles Like, things that taste really good?

This month we’re taking the pledge to #ChooseLunch, and is there really a better lunch to look forward to in the fall than creamy pumpkin pasta with rosemary walnut crispies? This is one of those recipes that keeps well for several days, reheats beautifully, fills you up, and tastes so good that you’ll be doing a little happy dance in your head (or, like, not in your head) every time you remember that it’s waiting for you in the fridge. Breakfast is yummy and dinner is wonderful, but 10/10 chance you’ll have a more productive, happier, feel-good day if you keep yourself well-fed at lunch time. ♡ There are two parts to making this recipe, the most important one being making those little rosemary walnut crispies. Should you make a double batch of them so you can add them to every salad, roasted vegetable bowl, soup, cheeseboard, snack bag, and stew for the rest of fall and winter? Y to the E to the S. These little guys are universally delicious.

Making The Walnut Crispies:

First, get your walnuts chopped and toasted. Then toss them with just a little bit of fresh rosemary and brown sugar and black pepper and salt and butter. It’s just an essential walnut spa treatment, really. Try not to eat all of them hot off the pan because WOW. Fun fact: Walnuts are an incredible source of Omega-3 fatty acids which are important for your body and your brain, and can help fight things like depression and anxiety, and inflammation, and a variety of other things. Food is so amazing.

Making The Pumpkin Pasta:

Okay, cook your pasta. Make your pumpkin sauce which is so easy and life-changingly good. Combine. Pasta goes in the bowl, and a spoonful of rosemary walnut crispies (okay, fine, a few more) (and then just a few more) go on top. THIS IS LIVING. Honestly. This bowl of pumpkiny, rosemary/garlic goodness is going to get you right in the fall feels.