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Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: Sue33 on October 04, 2011, 09:46

Title: Pumpkin Recipes
Post by: Sue33 on October 04, 2011, 09:46

i'm going to need some pumpkin recipes, we've had a fantastic harvest this year  :D must have about 12 good sized ones and five or six smaller ones, we had to harvest them as the stems were beginning to rot but they're all ripe, will give away a few to friends and family but need recipes please!!

Title: Re: Pumpkin Recipes
Post by: compostqueen on October 04, 2011, 10:44

There's bound to be some in the Recipe section on here

I make pumpkin pie as I grow pie pumpkins. There's a recipe in WW Your Week this week  :)
I've made jam
I use the firm fleshed ones for curry, stews and roasting
Soggier fleshed ones get used in mash and the desserts
I like to roast the firm ones with other roast veg on open trays in the oven
The firm ones are good with rice dishes
Try them roasted round the meat, yum
You can roast and then make soup. Roasting seems to improve the finished result
You can use the grated flesh in the same way as courgette for muffins and cakes

Title: Re: Pumpkin Recipes
Post by: rubyrose on October 04, 2011, 23:01

my other half dropped a pumpkin on suday and it split sooooo i have made pumpkin soup we had never tried it before and it is very tasty
also today made pumpkin chutney,   again a first  but have a while to wait to try it.
both recipes are on this site

Title: Re: Pumpkin Recipes
Post by: Sue33 on October 05, 2011, 13:55

thank you ladies, am i right in thinking you can roast them with their skin on like butternut squash?  Or do they have to be peeled?

Title: Re: Pumpkin Recipes
Post by: mumofstig on October 05, 2011, 14:59

some of them have very hard skins, that you can only cut with an axe  :ohmy: eg Iton Bark pumpkins.
That kind obviously need to have the hard skin cut off before or after cooking :)

Title: Re: Pumpkin Recipes
Post by: madcat on October 16, 2011, 16:51

I chop into wedges and roast/steam, then skin.  Much easier on the knife, patience and language!  :ohmy:

Title: Re: Pumpkin Recipes
Post by: Ice on October 16, 2011, 17:31

Pumpkin risotto.  Roast it in cubes, mash half and keep other whole.  Add to a plain risotto with some fried sage leaves.   :)

Title: Re: Pumpkin Recipes
Post by: mumofstig on October 16, 2011, 19:37

try this one
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=936.msg7392#msg7392

a few more here
http://www.allotment-garden.org/recipe/category/vegetable-recipes/pumpkins-recipes/

 ;)

Title: Re: Pumpkin Recipes
Post by: compostqueen on October 16, 2011, 23:28

If you roast with the skin on you can either leave it on and eat it, it goes chewy, or take it off before making your soup or whatever

I'd always roasted and then removed the skin and chucked it away but Hugh Fernly ate his so I tried it and it's ok.  We eat potato skins don't we  :D