Delicious Pumpkin Recipes

Actually, pumpkins are too good to just display hollowed out and with carved faces, because pumpkins are full of health.

Here are delicious pumpkin recipes that are very easy to make.

Pumpkin Chips

Ingredients:

• 600 g pumpkin pulp
• Salt and pepper and other spices
• olive oil

Preparation:

Cut the pumpkin into pieces, remove the peel and seeds.Weigh out 600 g of pumpkin pulp.Cut the pumpkin pulp into thin slices using a knife or a peeler.For the seasoning, mix the olive oil, salt, pepper and possibly other spices in a bowl.Add the pumpkin chips to the bowl and mix everything well.

After the chips have soaked for about half an hour, place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper.Now put the tray in the oven preheated to 150 degrees for approx. 50 - 60 minutes. Important: do not close the door completely so that the moisture can escape easily. To do this, for example, put a wooden spoon between the oven and the door.

Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients:

• 1 large Hokkaido pumpkin
• 1 liter vegetable broth
• 3 carrots
• 1 large red onion
• 3 boiled potatoes
• 5 tbsp balsamic vinegar
• 8 tbsp white wine vinegar
• 1 tsp Piri Piri oil
• butter
• Salt pepper
• Spices: hot pepper, ginger, lemongrass

Preparation:

Roughly dice the onion and sauté it with a little butter in a large pot.Roughly dice the pumpkin and carrots and add them.Add the vegetable broth and bring everything to the boil. Let simmer for approx. 15 minutes.Finally add the diced potatoes and puree everything.

Important: season well! Be careful not to have too much vinegar and piri piri in the soup afterwards. It's better to try every now and then .

Pumpkin Jam

Ingredients:

• 1 kg pumpkin pulp
• a small piece of fresh ginger
• 5 lemons
• 500 g preserving sugar 2:1

Preparation:

Remove the seeds and fibrous pulp from the pumpkin, peel it and cut it into very small pieces.Squeeze the lemons.Peel the ginger and press it through a garlic press.Place pumpkin, ginger and lemon juice in a pot and cook until soft. Then strain the mixture through a sieve.Weigh out 1 kg of fruit mixture and mix with the preserving sugar.Simmer for 4 minutes while stirring, making sure nothing burns.

Make a gelling test with a small blob on a cold saucer. If it sets within a short time, the jam is ready.Remove any foam with a slotted spoon, but you can also simply stir it in.Then pour the hot mixture into hot-rinsed jars, close and leave to cool upside down.

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