Make/Bake 8: Roasted Butternut Squash Spaghetti Lasagne

Today in an attempt to be healthy (after yesterdays HUGE pudding) I made something from a little booklet of Weightwatchers meals which came free in one of my parents newspapers. The recipe is orginally from Tana Ramsay but I have tweaked it a bit by adding meat for M :)

Ingredients ( I halved the original recipe so the following served 2)
250g Butternut Squash, peeled and diced
2 Garlic Cloves, sliced,
Few sprigs Rosemary,
5g Butter
1tbsp Rapeseed Oil (or Olive oil)
85g Spaghetti
1 tin Chopped Tomatoes
1tbsp Soy Sauce
1tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
1tbsp Chopped Fresh Basil
1 Leek, sliced,
90ml Vegetable Stock,
100g Ham Hock Meat (I got mine in the Ham and Meat section in Sainsburys but an ham or bacon would be lovely too)
25g Pine Nuts
100g Ricotta
100g Baby Leaf Spinach (I'd have had more but M's not a huge fan)
50ml Single Cream
50g Grated Cheddar Cheese

Method:

Preheat the oven (190°C or Gas 5). Roast the Squash with the garlic, rosemary, butter and oil for 20 minutes. The remove the rosemary and any burnt garlic and mash.
Wilt the Spinach (I put mine in the microwave for a minute) and allow to cool.
Meanwhile cook the spaghetti as per the packet instructions.
Heat the tinned tomatoes, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce and basil and any seasoning. Bring to the boil and then simmer for about 10 minutes.
Fry the sliced leek until starting to brown and then add the squash and vegetable stock. Simmer until the liquid has all absorbed (mine only took about 5 minutes).
Toast the Pinenuts (unless you've already got the ready toasted ones).
Mix the wilted spinach, cream and ricotta together.
Layer the squash mixture in an oven proof dish and sprinkle with half of the pine nuts. Top with half of the spaghetti and spread on the tomato sauce (I found this sauce was lovely and may even use it again with other pasta dishes).
Top with the remaining pasta and cover with the spinach and ricotta mix. Sprinkle on the grated cheese and remaining pine nuts and bake for 30 minutes.

Before going in the oven

After

Still need to work on those presentation skills but it was lovely. I don't think it needed the meat at all and I almost got M to agree too!