Love easy pasta dishes? Try this recipe for Butternut Squash Ravioli With Zucchini. It transforms Trader Joe’s butternut squash ravioli into a complete pasta dinner in less than 30 minutes. It’s so tasty!!
In this guide, you’ll learn to saute the zucchini and how to make a simple butter sauce to bring the whole dish together.
Ingredients for this butternut squash pasta dish
A few tasty ingredients are all you need for this complete dish using butternut squash raviolis. To make it, I used one package of Trader Joe’s raviolis and made it with a simple butter sauce with zucchini, shallots, and garlic.
How to make a meal with butternut squash raviolis and zucchini
Let’s whip up a tasty Trader Joe’s dinner recipe with butternut squash raviolis.
Once you learn how to make it, their refrigerated pasta will always be on your Trader Joe’s must haves list.
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Step 1. Prepare for the recipe. Decide if you want to cook the pasta and zucchini at the same time, or one after the other.
See the recipe notes for how to make this recipe faster by cooking them at the same time.
Step 2. Boil butternut squash ravioli. Heat a large pot of water on the stove to high heat. Add ½ tsp salt and bring the water to a boil. Add Trader Joe’s Butternut Squash Ravioli pasta to the boiling water and cook on the stove as directed on the package to al dente.
See the notes below for specifics on Trader Joe’s Butternut Squash ravioli cooking instructions. My recommendation is to cook ravs 3 minutes fresh / 4 minutes when cooking ravioli from frozen.
Step 3. Drain butternut squash raviolis. Add a little olive oil to the pasta if you haven’t started pan frying the zucchini, so the pasta doesn’t stick later.
Step 4. Pan fry the zucchini and shallots. Set a medium or large size pan on the stove to medium-high heat.
Add 2 tsp of olive oil, zucchini, and shallots. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally until zucchini softens and starts to brown.
When the vegetables begin sticking to the pan, add 1 tbsp of salted butter and garlic, and stir regularly for 1 minute, until the butter melts.
Turn the heat of the burner down to low if you’re ready to add the boiled pasta now, or turn off the burner completely if the pasta isn’t done yet.
Step 5. Make the butter sauce. When the pasta is drained, add 1 tsp olive oil and 2 tbsp butter to the pan with the fried zucchini and shallots.
Turn the heat to medium-low and cook together until the butter has melted, stirring constantly for about 30 seconds.
Then add the ravioli and stir. It will only take about 1 minute for the ravioli, zucchini, and butter sauce to mingle.
Turn off the heat once butter is melted and add fresh chopped parsley and fresh parmesan cheese. Serve immediately.
Trader Joe’s butternut squash ravioli cooking instructions
On the package, it reads:
Cooking Instructions For Stove Top
Bring 4 Quarts of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta, bring back to a gentle boil. Continue to cook for 3 minutes or to desired tenderness. Drain and toss with butter, olive oil or your favorite sauce and serve.
How long to cook Trader Joe’s ravioli from frozen?
I personally add on one minute to the cook time for all of the raviolis sold at TJ’s, when cooking from frozen. The lobster ravioli and cauliflower raviolis are delicious, and can be cooked from frozen, too.
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My Trader Joe’s Butternut Squash Ravioli review?
I love it! Seriously, I can’t get enough of it. While I love making a lot of dishes from scratch, my husband and I are no longer up at 2am making pasta on weekend nights. So I love being able to pop a few of the Trader Joe’s ravioli varieties in my freezer and cook raviolis from frozen when I’m in a pinch for dinner.
Even my toddler is happy with it! While I love the butternut squash ravioli from Trader Joe’s – you can get it pretty much in any grocery store, in the refrigerated section.
I’m a huge fan of Trader Joe’s pizza dough options, too.
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Fun facts about Trader Joe’s Butternut Squash pasta
- It seems past packages of Trader Joe’s had different names. At one point, they were called Butternut Squash Triangoli from Trader Giotto’s.
- They are a product of Italy.
- They are described as “thin stuffed pasta with sweet butternut squash”
- Have you ever noticed the illustration image on the package? It is a red bike with a basket holding bread, cheese, and butternut squash vegetables.
- There is a use by and freeze by date on tha package.
- Each package of pasta is 8.8 oz.
More sauces for butternut squash ravioli
This pasta tastes great with other sauces, too.
Some nights I’ll use store bought alfredo sauce on pasta, or if I have a half hour, I’ll make a tomato sauce from canned tomatoes.
What vegetables go with butternut squash ravioli
Wondering, “what do I serve with butternut squash ravioli”? While zucchini and butternut squash ravioli were used in this dish, you can get creative with your own add-ins including:
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More recipes using Trader Joe’s ingredients
Are you a Trader Joe’s enthusiast, too? I love planning grocery trips to Trader Joe’s. It’s almost like a vacation… strolling up and down the aisles to discover new things. When I come home, I’m inspired to develop new recipes.
My best recipes using Trader Joe’s products end up here on Sip Bite Go…
- Cauliflower Rice. Use it in place of bread crumbs in Hawaiian pineapple bbq meatballs and as a filling for cheesy Italian stuffed peppers. Also try it in a vegetable stir fry with cauliflower rice.
- Ready Made Pizza Dough. I’m a huge fan of making pizza at home and have extensive information on how to use Trader Joe’s Pizza Dough.
- Frozen Pizza Crust. Learn how to make frozen pizza crust taste amazing.
- Everything But The Bagel Seasoning. This is super delicious on focaccia bread with Everything Bagel Seasoning.
- Frozen Gyoza and Potstickers. These are great in frozen vegetable stir frys. See my guide to Trader Joe’s chicken cilantro mini wontons or Trader Joe’s vegetable gyoza.
- Frozen Ravioli. Sometimes I just serve it with tomato sauce. Other times, I go a little nuts and make ravioli pizza with store bought Alfredo sauce.
- Spice Kits. Did you know you can buy Trader Joe’s products online? This Trader Joe’s spice kit inspires so many recipes in my house.
- Cheese. The cheese case at Trader Joe’s is undeniably amazing. Use it for potatoes gratin with frozen vegetables, this recipe for baked shells with ground beef, or in potato side dish recipes.
See more of the best meals to make with Trader Joe’s ingredients and my full list of Trader Joe’s must haves.
Trader Joe’s Butternut Squash Ravioli With Zucchini Recipe | Sip Bite Go
Ingredients
- 8.8 oz Butternut Squash Raviolis Trader Joe’s brand
- ½ tsp salt
- 3 tsp olive oil divided
- 1 zucchini medium – sliced in half lengthwise,then diced to 1” half moons
- 2 tbsp shallots diced ½” chunks
- 3 tbsp salted butter divided
- 1 tsp garlic minced
Instructions
- Prepare for the recipe. Decide if you’re going to cook the pasta and zucchini at the same time, or one after the other. See recipe notes for how to make this recipe faster.
- Boil raviolis. Heat a large pot of water on the stove to high heat. Add ½ tsp salt and bring the water to a boil. Add Trader Joe's Butternut Squash Ravioli pasta to the boiling water and cook on the stove as directed on the package to al dente. (See the notes below for specifics on Trader Joe's Butternut Squash ravioli cooking instructions. My recommendation is to cook raviolis 3 minutes fresh / 4 minutes when cooking ravioli from frozen.)
- Drain butternut squash raviolis. Add a little olive oil to the pasta if you haven’t started pan frying the zucchini, so the pasta doesn’t stick later.
- Pan fry the zucchini and shallots. Set a medium or large size pan on the stove to medium-high heat. Add 2 tsp of olive oil, zucchini, and shallots. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally until zucchini softens and starts to brown. When the vegetables begin sticking to the pan, add 1 tbsp of salted butter and garlic, and stir regularly for 1 minute, until the butter melts. Turn the heat of the burner down to low if you’re ready to add the boiled pasta now, or turn off the burner completely if the pasta isn’t done yet.
- Make the butter sauce. When the pasta is drained, add 1 tsp olive oil and 2 tbsp butter to the pan with the fried zucchini and shallots. TTurn the heat to medium-low and cook together until the butter has melted, stirring constantly for about 30 seconds. Then add the ravioli and stir. It will only take about 1 minute for the ravioli, zucchini, and butter sauce to mingle. Turn off the heat once butter is melted and add fresh chopped parsley and fresh parmesan cheese. Serve immediately
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Notes
- Try making the zucchini and raviolis at the same time. When you get the hang of this recipe, it’s easy to cook the zucchini and butternut squash raviolis at the same time on two different burners. This will cut the cook time of the recipe down. What you’ll see demonstrated in the recipe video is that I started pan frying the zucchini when the water for the pasta was boiling.
- Instructions for cooking butternut squash raviolis from TJ’s. The cooking instructions on the package of Trader Joe’s Butternut Squash Ravioli indicate a cooking time of 3 minutes from fresh. I usually use a cook time of 4 minutes when cooking from frozen. You’ll know they’re done when they’re floating and puffed up.
- My Trader Joe’s Butternut Squash Ravioli review? I love it! Seriously, I can’t get enough of it. While I love making a lot of dishes from scratch, my husband and I are no longer up at 2am making pasta on the weekend. So I love being able to pop a few of the Trader Joe’s ravioli varieties in my freezer and cook raviolis from frozen when I’m in a pinch for dinner.
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