This Black spaghetti with sausage and pesto is a great dish to serve for Halloween dinner. It is an unfussy yet direct to cook pasta dish, and it won’t gross you out like some other extreme Halloween food would.

We have a special guest to introduce you today.

Her name is “Soonja”, and she is about to enjoy her black spaghetti with sausage and pesto for Halloween dinner she made.

Soonja, the Halloween doll, is sitting lonely.

Yes, she is a good old retired Halloween witch. She visits us on the month of October every year and sits in our living room before she goes back to where she came from.

Soonja is usually quiet sitting on her favorite spot in the room and watching the whole world passing by in front of her eyes. But when it comes to a time that we play with food for Halloween?, she has to stick her nose on us and tells us what to do. We have to listen to her. Otherwise she might cast a naughty spell on us. Who knows? She might turn us into a bat or a mice.

Okay Soonja! We are going to make your spooky Halloween pasta, Black spaghetti with sausage and pesto. Are you going to tell us how to make it?

“Vaash your hands fust” Soonja demanded. So here we go… we washed our hands and we were ready to start.

Ingredients You’ll Need

1 package black spaghetti
pork sausage or any kind you like

For kitchen-made Pesto sauce:

fresh basil leaves
pine nuts
garlic
grated Parmesan cheese
extra virgin olive oil
salt and pepper

Black Spaghetti for Halloween

Here is black spaghetti and some pork sausages. Blackness of this pasta comes from the squid ink. Yes, it is edible and is NOT fishy.

You might be able to get this type of pasta at the international shops such as Trader Joe’s or World Market, etc.

How the dish comes together

“Poke the little piggies vith zpagetties…, as many as you vant”

“Cook them in the boiling vater until the oodles are as tender as you vish… Tender piggies are so juicy, Eeee-hee-hee-hee!”

“Make green pesto to go vith. The greener, the better… We, witches, luv green…”

“Drain the oodles and the piggies, and mix vith pesto. That’s all, dear. Isn’t that direct?”

“Surely is, Soonja. Did you come up with this idea?”

” we fust had this pasta at annual GOWP monster potluck paaty.”

“What is GOWP?” We asked.

“Grand Old Witch Paaty, dear. We are not a member there anymore though. We lost our broomstick and they kicked us out. Too much politics to explain. Anyway, our dear friend, Frankenstein, brought this and everyone loved it. Everyone…, except our neighbor, Mr. Dracula. He just couldn’t stand it”

“Well, what did he eat then?” we quietly asked.

“He just drank Bloody Mary and munched on eyeball cookies that Cousin Itt brought. Vell, looks like our creepy pasta is ready to serve. Vould you like to take a bite?”

“Uuuuhh…” we hesitated. Because they looked like Medusa’s hair just got shampooed.

“You vill like it, our dear. Trust us…, Eee-hee-hee-hee” She squealed.

We took a bite. We choked and vomited…

(Just kidding!)

To our surprise, it was quite tasty. Who would have thought a witch can help us make such a scrumptious pasta?

“How is it, our darling?” She asked.

“Creepy good, Soonja!” we answered with our mouth full slurping a piece of strand sneaking out on the side of our mouth.

“Oh, Soonja, You have taught us so much. We are looking forward to make more wonderful dishes with you.”

“Alright, dear! We are tired now. We better go rest.” Her long skinny legs were dangling down lifelessly as we moved her to her favorite spot. We were feeling a little sad because our broomstick-less old witch friend has to leave in a few days.

We polished off the plate and moved on to our everyday chores. We are grateful that we have Soonja inspiring us to be whimsy every Halloween. We like inspiring people (or witch).

Hope you enjoy her creepy pasta as much as we did.

Yield: 4 people
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 10 minutes

Ingredients

1 package (16 oz) black spaghetti
1 lb pork sausage or any kind you like

For the Pesto sauce:

2 cup fresh basil leaves
1/4 cup pine nuts
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
salt and pepper, to taste

Method

Cut sausage into about 1-inch size chunks
Poke 6-10 spaghetti noodles through each sausage pieces. When done, drain the noodles and drizzle olive oil to prevent them from sticking.
Boil water and cook sausage spaghetti noodles according to package directions, about 9 minutes.
To make pesto sauce, put basil, pine nuts, garlic, and Parmesan cheese in a food processor. Pulse them together as you drizzle the olive oil through a tube until well blended. Season with salt and pepper.
Toss the spaghetti with pesto sauce and serve.