Trofie with Pumpkin & Ricotta

Trofie con salsa “piciocia”

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Preparation info
  • Serves:

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      1 hr

Appears in
Pasta Therapy: Over 100 nourishing recipes for relaxation, calm and healing

By Isabella Barbato

Published 2026

  • About

A soft tangle of handmade pasta from Liguria meets a local sauce from Sicily to celebrate autumn’s best flavours. This is a comforting dish featuring the rich, creamy flavours of pumpkin, fresh ricotta and Sicilian Pecorino. “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons”, said the American journalist Jim Bishop, and it’s a sentiment I feel deeply in the kitchen. There’s something about autumn’s gentle decay that reminds us of the fleeting nature of thin