Baked mezze maniche with pumpkin, sausage, pumpkin béchamel sauce, and smoked provola cheese
Preparation
25 minutes
Cooking
35 minutes
Portions
2
Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients
- Mezze maniche 200 gr
- Pumpkin 300 gr
- Smoked provola 150g
- Fresh sausage 150 gr
- Fresh rosemary
- Garlic
- Salt
- Pepper
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Milk 300 ml
- Flour 30 g
- 30g butter + a few tufts for gratinating
- Breadcrumbs to taste
Procedure
Dice the pumpkin and bake it in the oven with rosemary, salt, garlic, oil, and pepper. Bake the crumbled sausage as well.
Meanwhile, prepare the béchamel sauce by melting the butter, adding the flour and cooking the roux while stirring. Add the hot milk and season with salt. Blend half of the cooked pumpkin into the béchamel sauce.
Cook the mezze maniche and season them with the pumpkin béchamel sauce and half of the pumpkin and sausage.
Butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs a baking dish, fill with half the pasta, add the provola, pumpkin, and sausage, cover with the remaining pasta and béchamel sauce. Add a few knobs of butter and bake at 180°C (350°F) for about 20 minutes.