Pumpkin & Feta Pasta

I got this recipe off the Facebook page "$120 food challenge" and my hubby just LOVES it!! I've actually altered it a little, and you can do the same!! Take out anything you don't like and add in anything that you do like or have in the cupboard!!

The "$120 food challenge" is a really great Facebook group - it's by a mum who has a budget of $120 to feed her family per week - so most of the recipes she posts are really cheap to make!!

Ingredients

Pumpkin

Olive Oil

Rosemary/Mixed Herbs

Garlic

Bacon

Onion

Feta

Lemon Zest

Lemon Juice

Pasta

Zucchini

Pine Nuts

Salt & Pepper

Method

Ok, there's LOTS going on with this recipe, but the beauty is that you can do them ahead of time and then just throw it all together at the end!

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Dice pumpkin into small pieces & place on roasting tray with oil, freshly ground pepper an half the rosemary leaves or mixed herbs. Put in oven and bake for 30min/until done.

2. Place pine nuts on oven tray and place in oven to cook for ~5 minutes. Keep a pretty close eye on them because they cook really quick!! Alternatively, you could fry them in a pan.

3. Cut up 8-10 cloves of garlic and place in a bowl. Mix with more olive oil and the remaining herbs. Dice fetta into 1cm pieces and mix through garlic and oil. This forms the pasta sauce, so use heaps of olive oil!!

4. Cook pasta ~15 minutes before serving (or 15 minutes after pumpkin has been put in oven if you are doing it all at once)

5. Dice bacon, zucchini and onion and fry.

6. When everything is ready and you are ready to serve, mix all the ingredients together quickly and serve! A recap, this will include:

- pasta

- roasted pumpkin and herbs

- feta mix

- fried bacon, zucchini and onion

- pine nuts

- lemon zest and juice to taste

Enjoy!!!