Recipes with pumpkin??

tonyhamm

Obvoiusly after crippling myself for 2 days on the bog after eating a curry made of haloween pumpkin I can affirm that they are not good for eating.

The seeds are totally inedible when roasted as well.

If you check out the web you will find that Jack o' lantern pumkins are basically acknowleged as inedible.

Even a soup made from the flesh would be rather low quality as the pulp is so waterly and weakly favoured, so reports of good soups made on here are not very beliveable.

However, you can just about make bread/muffins etc.. from the pulped flesh, although its nothing special IMO, and you can only use a small amount of the pulp for this.

Its basically a total waste buying them, however impressive they look in size, and a squash would make a much better buy.

CLARABEL

I so agree with everyone here!


fIRSTLY, IF YOU WANT TO USE SOMETHING FOR FOOD, then a butternut squash is the best, fantastic quality flesh and very little waste.

secondly, the pumpkins re ok to eat, but IMHO only in stuff like muffins and hm bread rolls....


clara.

xxx

denton6

I made pumpkin soup,with the pumpkin,onions,carrots veg stock cube and plenty of black pepper,tasted very nice.Think it is worth a try rather than throw it away.tasty.

thriftmonster

tonyhamm wrote: »

Even a soup made from the flesh would be rather low quality as the pulp is so waterly and weakly favoured, so reports of good soups made on here are not very beliveable.

I have just roasted mine off for soup and it tasted fine. Plus I tend to make my pumpkin soup quite spicy. Maybe it depends where in the country they were grown - we actually had quite a dry summer here in Belfast.

icecubequeen

After reading some of the comments in this thread, I was a little worried about the pumpkinI had brought from Tesco.

With it being only 99p and I also had a clubcard points voucher for 20 bonus points when buying a pumpkin, it really only cost me 19p, I thought I had a bargain!

But after reading ppls experiences of the 99p not tasting good as they are only good for carving, I was little worried how mine would turn out after being cooked.

Well I cooked some up yesterday and made soup and it was lovely! first time Ive made it too, and really impressed. My recipe wasn't exactly measured, just a chuck it in kinda thing! lol

Went along the lines of:

(give and take the quantities as they werent weighed or measured)

1/4 of a extra large pumpkin
1/2 butternut squash
1 sweet potato
1 onion
1 garlic clove
2 pints of water
2 veg stock cubes
1 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tsp garam masala

simmered it all for an hr, then blended it, tastes lovely :j

THIRZAH

I made pumkin pie with my 99p pumpkin and it tasted fine. I did taste the puree before adding the eggs etc in case it was bitter.

The only problem now is how we are going to eat up all that pie plus the rest of the pumpkin puree which I've frozen!

cdg1111

I got the 99p Tesco pumpkin, did as others did and basically scooped out as much as I could with a melon baller (this made it easier to carve). Meanwhile cooked some onion and garlic - about 3 cloves I think as there was a lot of pumpkin - then added the pumpkin and cooked it until it was tender, added some vegetable stock. blitzed it and added a little cream on top. It was heavenly and we had it for supper for two nights running. Wish I'd bought more now.

champys

Well I cooked some up yesterday and made soup and it was lovely! first time Ive made it too, and really impressed. My recipe wasn't exactly measured, just a chuck it in kinda thing! lol

I love the silky texture of pumpkin soup - better than anything thickened with flour or starch or cream.... We grow pumpkins every year and try different varieties for taste, but they are always good if you leave them on the plant as long as you can - just remember to harvest them before the first frost!

a plain pumpkin soup (just with some onion and stock) tastes marvellous with chopped smoked sausage in it. this is how they serve it in switzerland. for a curried one, try red thai chili paste and some coconut milk - delicious too.

as the things are so big we never get to eat them all before they go off, so I also freeze the flesh in portions: after baking big chunks in the oven and squeezing out excess liquid afterwards. what is left freezes very well and is a great base for pumpkin soup or pie all year round.

CravingSaving

Can I pick your collective brains for some advice please?

I have just put some pumpkin soup in the slow cooker, not followed a recipe, just used what I have lying around, but want to know if you think it will taste lovely or not!

I have used:
I small pumpkin
I large potato
a dozen baby carrots
Pint of fresh chicken stock (from slow cooked chicken this morning)
large crushed bulb or garlic
small glass of orange juice (I dont know why - seemed like a good idea at the time)
sprinkle of thyme and pinch of salt
topped up with hot water to cover the veg and half a veggie stock cube

Whaddya reckon? If you think this is a recipe for disaster, is there anything you think I should add before it's too late?

Bongedone

Sounds fine to me. Would make a nice soup that combination.