The Seasonal Kitchen: Pumpkin Alfredo Hot Dish

Hot dish is a Minnesota term for a casserole that includes a starch, meat, veggies, and a cream sauce. My twist uses pumpkin as the starch and alfredo sauce for the cream base.

The ingredients:

1lb chicken

2 C kale

1 C sliced peppers

1 jar alfredo sauce

1/2 C pumpkin puree

1 tsp savory 

Pinch of pumpkin pie spice

Salt and pepper to taste

1 C cheese shredded

The recipe:

Cook and drain the chicken and set aside

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In skillet, cook the peppers in olive oil and add kale and cook until cooks down a bit. 

Add chicken back in and top with the alfredo, pumpkin, savory, and pumpkin pie spice. 

Stir to combine.

Add salt and pepper to taste.

Place in a small greased baking dish about 7x9 and top with cheese.

Bake until browned on top and bubbly. Approximately 20 minutes.

Notes:

You can replace with other veggies 

-broccoli would be great.

If you don't have savory you can use sage or thyme.

If you don't have pumpkin pie spice use nutmeg. Don't skip this though it really makes a difference. I used about an 1/8 tsp.

Make sure you use canned pumpkin puree not pumpkin pie puree. 

I used mozzarella and parmesan cheese but you can use any cheese you would use in pasta dishes.

Garnish with crushed red pepper, sage, basil, parmesan.