CREAMY PUMPKIN SAUCE

Creamy Pumpkin Sauce image

This sauce is great over pumpkin or cheese ravioli!

Provided by MegChaseWal

Categories Side Dish Sauces and Condiments Recipes Sauce Recipes Pasta Sauce Recipes Creamy

Time 30m

Yield 8

Number Of Ingredients 11

Ingredients

2 teaspoons oil
1 shallot, chopped
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup light cream
1 pinch salt
1 pinch ground cinnamon
1 cup pumpkin puree
1 cup chicken broth, or more as needed
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh sage
1 ½ teaspoons chopped fresh thyme

Steps:

Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir shallots until soft, about 10 minutes. Add butter and allow to melt. Whisk flour into butter mixture until incorporated. Stir cream, salt, and cinnamon into butter mixture and continue whisking until incorporated, about 2 minutes.
Mix pumpkin and 1/2 cup chicken broth into cream mixture, adding more broth, 1/4 cup at a time, until desired consistency is reached. Simmer sauce until desired consistency is reached, 5 to 10 minutes. Stir sage and thyme into sauce.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 118.6 calories, Carbohydrate 6.4 g, Cholesterol 28.1 mg, Fat 10 g, Fiber 1.1 g, Protein 1.7 g, SaturatedFat 5.7 g, Sodium 246.5 mg, Sugar 1.4 g