This Butternut Squash Ravioli recipe is ready in under 10 minutes. The sauce is made of browned butter, crispy sage and lots of parmesan cheese. It’s a quick and easy recipe that’s also decadent and rich. It’s my favorite way to cook butternut squash ravioli!
Table of Contents
- Trader Joe's Butternut Squash Ravioli
- Ingredients & Substitutions
- How to make Trader Joe's Butternut Squash Ravioli
- How to make Homemade Butternut Squash Ravioli
- How to make the Butternut Squash Ravioli Sauce
- Top Tips & Tricks
- What Sauce goes with Butternut Squash Ravioli?
- Frequently Asked Questions:
- Save this recipe for later
- Recipe
Trader Joe's Butternut Squash Ravioli
Trader Joe's Butternut Squash Ravioli is one of my favorite seasonal products this time of year.
The ravioli, which sometimes comes in a triangular shape, is filled with sweet butternut squash.
In my opinion, the best way to serve them is with this easy brown butter sage sauce. But if that's not your cup of tea, I have a ton of other tasty sauce recommendations in the middle of this post.
And truth be told, you don't have to use Trader Joe's only.
You can use any butternut squash ravioli from the grocery store you have - just make sure to follow the cooking instructions for proper preperation.
You can also use frozen raviolis if that's what you're working with or fresh, homemade ravioli.
What I love most about this recipe is how quick and easy it is. It legit comes together in under 10 minutes if you've got the water already boiling.
And! My 1.5 year old LOVES it! And if she loves it, I bet you will, too!
Enjoy!
Ingredients & Substitutions
- Butternut Squash Ravioli - For this recipe, you can use any type of store bought or homemade Butternut Squash Ravioli. Frozen, Fresh, whatever! It doesn't even have to be Trader Joe's. And to be honest, you don't even have to use butternut squash - use whatever flavor you'd like. If you want to make shortcut homemade butternut squash ravioli, you can make fresh pasta dough, fill it with a mix of butternut squash and brown sugar, and use a ravioli stamp to seal the homemade pasta closed. You could also use wonton wrappers as a shortcut. More on that below!
- Salted butter - If you don't have salted butter, you can use unsalted and just add a few pinches of kosher salt. I don't recommend using swapping olive oil for butter because the sauce will not brown and it will not become nutty.
- Fresh Sage - Fresh sage leaves works best in this recipe because it's the most flavorful. If you absolutely had to, dried sage would work too, you would just need to cook it a little longer - preferably as the butter browns.
- Parmigiano Cheese - Parmesan cheese makes the most creamiest cheesy brown butter sauce. If you don't have it, you could use another type of parmesan, grana padano, asiago, or even pecorino romano cheese.
- Flaky Salt - I love finishing dishes with Maldon's flaky salt but this is totally optional. Regular kosher salt would work just fine.
- Fresh Cracked Pepper - Fresh cracked pepper just adds so much more flavor.... but regular black pepper would be just fine in a pinch.
How to make Trader Joe's Butternut Squash Ravioli
Making this dish is super easy.
First you'll want to bring a large pot of water to light boil.
Add about 2 teaspoon of salt to help flavor the pasta dough. You could also add olive oil to the boiling water but I honestly don't think this adds anything extra.
Drop the frozen or fresh pasta into the boiling water, carefully splitting them up if they're sticking together.
Let the raviolis cook in the boiling water for 4 minutes or until they are floating and heated through.
Be careful not to rapidly boil the water bc the pasta is delicate and you don't want them to break.
Nothing is worse that raviolis with no filling!
Once they're cooked through and al dente, use a slotted spoon to transfer the cooked ravioli right from the pot (reserving about a cup of pasta water) and add them into the sauce for butternut squash ravioli.
How to make Homemade Butternut Squash Ravioli
If you want to make homemade pasta, go for it!
Although this is a time-consuming endeavor, the easiest method involves mashing cooked butternut squash with brown sugar for the filling. You can then either use wonton wrappers from the grocery store or homemade ravioli pasta dough using all purpose flour, eggs, olive oil and a pasta machine.
Once you have the two components ready, you can either use a ravioli stamp, ravioli mold or even an actual ravioli maker to create the raviolis themselves.
If you’re making them right away, then just plop them in boiling water and get to cooking. Or if you are making them ahead of time, you can use a baking sheet to arrange the homemade butternut squash ravioli and place them in the freezer. Once frozen, simply place them in plastic wrap, an airtight container or a ziplock bag and keep in the freezer til ready.
How to make the Butternut Squash Ravioli Sauce
Making this easy brown butter sage butternut squash ravioli sauce is a total breeze!
Add Butter to the Pan: First, add your cut up butter to a large skillet. Over medium low heat, let the butter melt by stirring it every 30 seconds or so. As it bubbles and simmers away, continue stirring.
Butter Browns & Darkens: You'll notice that the butter starts to darken - which is exactly what you want when making sauce for butternut squash ravioli! Once the butter begins to reach a warm acorn color, you can either turn the heat off completely to stop the browningg or turn it to low heat if your ravioli are already al dente and ready to be sauced up.
Add Sage Leaves: Immediately add the fresh sage leaves and let them crisp up which will flavor the sauce for butternut squash ravioli.
Add Ravioli: After that, it's time to add the pasta, the reserved pasta water, and parmesan cheese.
Finish Pasta in Ravioli Sauce: If it's a little watery, you can turn the burner back on to medium heat and cook for another minute or two until the ravioli soak up the extra water/sauce.
Final Seasoning & Plating: After that, it's time to plate it! I like adding some flaky salt, fresh cracked pepper and some more parmigiano cheese.
Top Tips & Tricks
- Don't overcrowd your ravioli! Be sure to use a big pot so the ravioli has plenty of room to move around and cook.
- Save the pasta water to make the butternut squash ravioli sauce more silky and smooth.
- Parmigiano is the best cheese for this sort of sauce. It just works differently!
- Fresh Sage Leaves work best - dried sage is ok but it won't have nearly as much flavor!
- Watch your butter and and stir it often! Remember the more high quality and better your butter is, the tastier your sauce will be!
- Remember to season the sauce for butternut squash ravioli. Everything tastes better with a little bit of kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper.
What Sauce goes with Butternut Squash Ravioli?
If you're not into this butternut squash pasta sauce, I recommend trying some of these tasty sauces with your butternut squash ravioli or even with some of your other favorite pasta recipes!
- Alfredo Sauce
- Marcella Hazan's Buttery Tomato Sauce
- Parmesan Cheese & Salted Butter
- Fresh or store bought Pesto from the grocery store
- Aglio e olio (sautéed minced garlic cloves and olive oil)
- Carbonara (made with egg yolk and guanciale or bacon)
- Cacio e Pepe (cheese and pepper)
Frequently Asked Questions:
How to reheat butternut squash ravioli
Reheating this recipe is a breeze. For convenience sake, I recommend just putting your cooked ravioli leftovers in a bowl and covering with a paper towel or plastic wrap. Put it in the microwave for 1 minute at a time, stirring after each minute. Depending on the amount you have, I'd say you have about 1-2 minutes cooking time I also recommend doctoring it up with another little bit of butter and fresh grated parmesan cheese. If you want to do it on the stovetop, place the cooked ravioli in a pan or large skillet over medium heat and place the lid on. Let them slowly reheat for a few minutes or until it's as warm as desired.
What goes well with butternut squash ravioli
I love pairing these Trader Joe's Butternut Squash Raviolis with some Kale Apple Slaw or even some Chicken Florentine Soup. For more tasty butternut squash recipes, try this baked feta pasta with butternut squash, this caramelized butternut squash goat cheese toast, or this butternut squash mac and cheese. Or if you want another totally delicious ravioli recipe, you have to try my ravioli carbonara!!!
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Recipe
Butternut Squash Ravioli with Brown Butter Sage Sauce
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 9 oz butternut squash ravioli (2 packages 18 oz total)
- 6 tablespoon salted butter cut into tbsps
- 1 tablespoon fresh sage julienned and packed
- ½ cup parmigiano grated
- ¼ cup reserved pasta water
- flaky salt
- fresh cracked pepper
Instructions
- Prepare butternut squash according to the box/bag - usually boiled or 4 minutes. Making sure to save some pasta water for later.
- While that’s boiling, start the brown butter sauce.
- Add 6 tablespoon of salted butter to a medium sized nonstick pan over medium heat.
- Continue cooking and stirring while the butter bubbles and begins to darken.
- Once the color is a warm acorn brown, turn the heat off and immediately add the sage and stir — the sage will get crispy as it fries in the brown butter.
- Then add the cooked butternut squash ravioli, the pasta water and half the parmesan cheese. Cook and gently toss for another minute or so until the cheese melts into the pasta water and coats the ravioli.
- Plate and finish with flaky salt, fresh cracked pepper and remaining parmigiano.
Erin Batzer
Delicious, thank you! I added minced garlic to mine and it was a huge hit! Just added it to taste when the butter was browning.
Bethany
So delicious and easy to make!