Your favourite Pumpkin recipes?



There’s a recipe for this somewhere. Cut out a ‘lid’ where the top is, scrape out the seeds etc. Cook some sliced leeks mixed with Gruyère, crème fraiche, mustard and thyme, then pour into the squash/pumpkin. Pop the lid back on and bake in the oven for around an hour, then use a spoon to scrape out the flesh with the leek mix. Bread for dunking is essential.

Ottolenghi’s baked squash and red onion with zataar and tahini dressing is also great.
 
HellsBells said:
Recipes please? They look lush.
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I was working from home yesterday so I had time to make everything slowly. The marsala gravy should make enough to have some left over for another meal


Marsala gravy

Skin and seed a big bag of tomatoes and put them in the oven on a medium/low heat to roast until the flavour intensifies (you can squeeze the liquid out of the seeds and use it in a bloody mary later)

While the tomatoes are roasting heat some oil in heavy pan on a low heat and add cumin seeds, Kashmiri red chiles, mustard seeds, curry leaf and black cardamom. Cook until the smell becomes strong

Add 2 onions, 2 cloves of garlic, an inch of ginger. Cook over a low heat. When the onions have softened add garam masala and some asafoetida

Cook until you have a fragrant mush. Remove the cardamoms and red chiles . Add the roasted tomatoes, onion mix, and a cup of veg stock to a blender and blast to a sauce. Add more water if neeeded

Biryani

In heavy saucepan (I use an old la crueset) melt some coconut oil. Add green cardamom, and cinnamon sticks. When they become fragrant add whatever veg you want to.

Stir in a cup of rice and 2 cups of veg stock, plus turmeric. If you want to make a larger portion you can scale up the rice and stock

Put a heavy lid on, transfer to oven and bake for roughly 30mins (this depends on your oven, you might need to experiment a few times, but making loads of biryani until you get the oven timings right is no hardship. You want the rice to be steamed, light and fluffy with no grains sticking together


Pumpkin curry

While the Biryani is in the oven add a chopped onion to a heavy frying pan or korai, and fry. Add the chopped pumpkin and cook until the onion is soft and the pumpkin is starting to get some colour

Add enough of the marsala gravy to cover and simmer for 20+ minute until the pumpkin is soft but still has some texture

Saag Paneer

In another heavy pan and some chopped garlic

Put 2 bags of spinach in the microwave for 3 mins and squeeze out the excess water. Chop the paneer and air fry

Add the spinach to the pan with the garlic, and add one spoon of the marsala gravy and some single cream, simmer very gently. Add the fried paneer, simmer for another 5 mins and serve

Hope this helps
 

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