For baked pasta dish that calls for pancetta and butternut squash, can sweet potato be subbed instead?

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Maedl · Answer

Without looking at the recipe, it might be better to use another tyoe of squash rather than sweet potatoes. I am assuming the recipe calls for some sort of pasta. The sweet potatoes would make the final dish much heavier than squash.

LeBec F. · Answer

yes, sure, there's no reason it wouldn't work, but the flavor of the dish calls for winter squash- be it butternut or buttercup/kabocha or kyuri. I know sweet potatoes are very nutritious but they are alot heavier/denser than winter squash and better when  combined w/ greens and not pasta, imo.

Windischgirl · Answer

It will have a different (and sweeter) flavor, but if you like sweet potatoes, why not? Cooked Sweet potato also tends to be softer than squash--more likely to lose it's shape--but if that's not a problem for you, go for it! I have subbed one for the other when making Thanksgiving pies, and in tagines.

For baked pasta dish that calls for pancetta and butternut squash, can sweet potato be subbed instead?

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