Creamy pumpkin pasta with chanterelles, dino kale and tarragon

I might not have been a pasta queen in the past but then one day I was really craving a bowl of creamy, flavourful and hearty pasta. Then this happened!

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Creamy pumpkin pasta with chanterelles, black kale and tarragon

Serves 4

Ingredients

4 portions pasta of your choice

200 grams fresh chanterelles

200 grams dino kale

1 shallot

1 tsp cold pressed rapeseed oil

salt and freshly ground black pepper

Creamy pumpking sauce

1 medium pumpkin

1 garlic clove

1 1/2 oat mylk

1 Tbsp nutritional yeast

1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar

rapeseed oil for brushing

flakey salt and black pepper

Sunflower seed parmesan

1 dl sunflower seeds

1 Tbsp nutritional yeast

1/2 tsp flakey salt

1 tsp cold pressed rapeseed oil

20 fresh tarragon leaves

For serving

fresh tarragon

black pepper

truffle oil (optional)

How to

Pre heat the oven to 175°C. Cut the pumpkin in half, deseed it and brush the inside with oil. Bake in the oven for about 25 minutes, until pumpkin is soft. Let cool and then scoop out the flesh. Mix with rest of the ingredients for the pumpkin sauce until smooth. Salt and pepper to taste.

Peel och finely chop the garlic and onion. Parboil the mushrooms. Add a bit of oil plus the onion and garlic, fry until onion and garlic are soft. Rinse and finely chop the dino kale, add to the mushrooms stir fry and let fry with for a couple of minutes. Salt and pepper to taste.

Sunflower seed parmesan: Toast the seeds in a dry, medium hot frying pan until they turn golden. Mix all the ingredients until crumbly in a food processor.

Cook the pasta according to instructions on packaging. Keep 1 dl of the cooking water.

Toss together the pasta, pumpkin sauce and pasta water until desired creaminess. Add the mushrooms stir fry.

Serve the pasta sprinkled with sunflower parmesan and some drizzled truffle oil.

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Krämig pumpapasta med trattkantareller och grönkål

4 portioner

Jag ska i ärlighetens namn skriva att jag är en riktig pasta-rookie. Men så smög sig suget över mig, och så kom jag att tänka på den där krämiga pumpasåsen som jag nu ganska länge funderat över ett användningsområde till. Och så var denna pastan född; enkelt och säsongslyxigt!

Ingredienser

4 portioner valfri pasta (kelpnudlar eller svarvade grönsaker funkar också)

200 gram färska trattkantareller

200 gram svartkål

1 schalottenlök

1 tsk kallpressad rapsolja

Salt och nymalen svartpeppar

Kärmig pumpasås

1 medelstor matpumpa, exempelvis Hokkaido eller Butternut

1 liten vitlöksklyfta

1 1/2 dl fet havredryck eller annan växtdryck

1 msk näringsjäst

1 msk äppelcidervinäger

Rapsolja till pensling

Flingsalt och nymalen svartpeppar

Solrosparmesan

1 dl solroskärnor, rostade

1 msk näringsjäst

1/2 tsk flingsalt

1 tsk kallpresssad rapsolja

20 färska dragonblad

Till servering

Färsk dragon

Nymalen svartpeppar

Tryffelolja (valfritt)

Gör såhär

Värm ugnen till 175°. Dela pumpan på mitten, gröp ur fröna och pensla snittytan med olja. Rosta i mitten av ugnen i ca 25 minuter, tills pumpan mjuknat. Låt svalna något och gröp sedan ut innehållet. Mixa samma med resten av ingredienserna till pumpasåsen. Tillsätt eventuellt lite mer vätska om den känns för tjock.

Skala och finhacka löken. Fräs i lite olja tills den mjuknar. Lägg åt sidan. Förväll och stek svampen. Skölj och strimla svartkålen fint, blanda ner med svampen och lägg tillbaka löken. Ringla över lite olja och fräs ett par minuter. Salta och peppra lätt.

Solrosparmesan: Mixa alla ingredienser till ett fint smul. 

Koka pastan enligt anvisning på förpackningen. Häll av när den har gott tugg motstånd och är al dente, men behåll lite (ca 1 dl) av pastavattnet. Blanda pastan med pumpasåsen, tillsätt det sparade pastavattnet tills du får en önskad krämighet. Blanda ner svartkål och trattkantareller i pastan. Servera toppad med solrosparmesan, färsk dragon och eventuellt ringlad tryffelolja.

Recipe was first published in The Gothenburg-Post/Två dagar

Sweet potato hummus with roasted garlic and tarragon

Hummus, my favourite dip/spread/sauce/filling - or what ever you might call it! Except for the lovely texture and delicious flavour I really like hummus because of it's nutrition - it's a great way to add some extra protein (and fibers and vitamins and minerals!) to your plant based meal! Spread it on seed cracker, add to your wrap or have it with a hearty salad. Traditionally a hummus is made of chickpeas, but sometimes I use white beans instead - I really like the variation (food hack #1 in this post - look for easy made variations and cooking will be much more fun and simple!)!

Another way to vary your hummus is to add different veggies (like beetroot, roasted carrot, green peas, grilled bell pepper etc) and herbs - also a perfect way to match the hummus with what ever you're serving it with - or what you're craving at the moment!

In my book The new green salad I share three of my favourite hummus recipes - and one of them you find here below! It happen to be my favourite hummus in the world - irresistibly creamy, sweet and nutty at the same time - with a herby touch! 

Photo by Fanny Hansson for The new green salad (Published by Bonnier Fakta)

 

Sweet potato hummus with roasted garlic and tarragon

Yield about 5 dl

Ingredients

240 grams (about 4 dl) cooked chickpeas *

1 small sweet potato, about 250 grams

1 garlic bulb **

2 tbsp tahini (preferably the light one, made of natural sesame seeds)

1/2 dl water

12 fresh tarragon leafs, or 1 tsp dried tarragon

2 tbsp cold pressed olive oil + extra to drizzle as garnish

Himalayan salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste. 

Garnish

Sesame seeds

Chili flakes 

How to

Pre heat the oven to 200 degres Celsius. Peel the potato and cut in to chunks, put on a baking sheet and mix with 1/2 tbsp olive oil. Remove the outer skin from the garlic bulb, enough for you to see the garlic cloves (skin on) separately with but yet you want the whole bulb to stick together. Brush with 1/2 tbsp olive oil. Put next to the sweet potatoes and roast in the oven for 30 minutes until potatoes and garlic are soft. Let cool.  

Mix water and tahini until creamy using an immersion blender or food processor. Add the rest of the ingredients (squeeze out the garlic), except for the olive oil and tarragon, mix until creamy. Add 1 tbsp olive oil and tarragon and mix to combine. Salt and pepper to taste. Drizzle with oil and sprinkle with sesame seeds and chili flakes before serving. 

Tip! Make a big batch and store in a air tight container in your fridge! Then you'll be ready for snackning, brunching, dining or having guest at any time. Food hack #2 in this post. A staple in my home! Lasts up to about a week. 

* Either use canned ones, or by dried and soak/cook yourself! If so, make sure to cook a big batch and put the ones you're not using for the recipe in different sized portions in your freezer! Takes about 2 seconds to take out when ever you want to use chickpeas the next time! Food hack #3 in this post) 

* * YES, a whole (!) garlic bulb! After half an hour roasting in the oven it will be all soft and sweet with an almost caramelised kind of flavour. It's lovely!