Recipes with pumpkin??

Mel2

Another thing i like doing is roasting it as above, then blitzing in a food processor/liquidiser with some stock usually chicken) and finishing it off with a drop of single cream to make a delicious thick soup great with crusty bread!

BexInLondon

Last night I made a pumpkin pie for the first time ever (and it was amazing - Abel and Cole recipe :T). Anyway, I was about to throw the seeds and stringy bit away when I thought about you lot, and that there was possibly something that could be done with them. So I roasted them while the pie baked, so about 40 mins with a bit of Olive Oil and salt. They puffed up and went golden brown, absolutely nothing like pumpkin seeds I've bought in the past, and were absolutely delicious. I'm now planning to put out a general Halloween shout-out to all my friends to give me their unwanted seeds as I need to make more!

Anyway, thanks for inspiring me to re-think what constitutes rubbish!

Frugalista

Well done :T (where's the recipe?)

Bitsy_Beans

Well done - not showing off at all just sharing tips

falady

well done Bex! Might try that with the seeds....

Nordictat2

Mmm love pumpkin pie! congrats. You can also add the seeds into muffins. good way of using them up

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I did the same thing last year, they turned out so yummy, I am definitely doing it again this year!

CCP

I tried this last year and it didn't work at all - the seeds went kind of hard and chewy, and were totally inedible.

I've got half a pumpkin in the fridge at the moment so I might try again as they worked so well for you, Bex - can I ask what temperature you roasted them at, please?

BexInLondon

Errr... It was about 160 but fan-assisted. They were slightly damp when they went in and I was generous with the olive oil. They didn't seem overly ripe, i.e. some of them were quite thin and nebulous so perhaps it's to do with the age of the pumpkin?

The pie was in the Abel & Cole cookbook (given to us free just for telling them who had told us about them when we joined, cheers A&C).

As far as I can remember it was:
250g pumpkin (a small pumpkin, halved, seeded and baked for 45 mins wrapped in foil) - very, very finely processed so as to be a liquid
Half a mug of sugar
1 tbsp cornflour
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ginger
3 eggs, separated
310 ml of milk
1 tsp vanilla essence
Sweet pastry base - can't remember recipe for the life of me
nutmeg to finish

Basically I pureed the pumpkin and stirred in the sugar, cornflour, cinnamon and ginger. Then added the yolks, milk and vanilla extract. Whisked the whites to a light foam in a separate bowl then mixed it all together and poured it into the pastry base, grating nutmeg on top. I baked it for ten mins at a high temp followed by 30 at around 160.

It came out like a pumpkinny, spicy custard tart. My husband approved very much and he had been so skeptical!

CCP

Thanks - I'll try that with some of the thinner seeds from my current pumpkin and see if it works - they'd only go in the bin otherwise so I can't lose anything.

I'll also have to try that pumpkin pie - I love custard tart and it's got to be a healthier alternative if it's got pumpkin in it - right?