What to do with pumpkin - Page 2

[Smokering]

DH currently loves it roasted with rosemary, olive oil or dripping, garlic, pepper, rock salt and a hefty drizzle of caramelised balsamic vinegar. I steam the pumpkin first to save time and just finish it in the oven for 20 minutes (or, like, an hour, depending how organised I'm being with the rest of dinner!).

I do this with halved mini-pumpkins, but it could work with curved chunks of big pumpkins too: Roast them in the oven and stuff them with a seasoned rice mixture. (Mine includes onion, capsicum, tomato paste, peas, corn, mustard etc.) Then top with cheese and bake. It's a complete meal in itself!

[steffanie3]

Originally Posted by FairyRae

This seems like it might be tasty--it's a recipe I'm hoping to try sometime soon--a coconut flour pumpkin bread.

Pumpkin Bread
1/2c canned pumpkin
8 eggs
1/2c butter or coconut oil melted
1/2c sucanat or brown sugar
1t vanilla
1 1/2t ground cinnamon
1/2t ground mace
1/2t salt
3/4c sifted coconut flour
1t baking powder
1/2c chopped pecans or walnuts

Blend the 1st 8 ingredients together. Combine flour and baking powder and wisk into the batter till there are no lumps. Add nuts. Pour into greased loaf pan and bake at 350 for 60 min.

I was wondering if anyone had tried this yet. I made it tonight, but didn't have mace and put in a cup of pumpkin on accident It is cooling so we will see how it turned out anyway. I am glad I have a lot of eggs on hand

[pixiepunk]

re: the pumpkin choc chip cookies, i always sub CO or melted butter into cookie recipes that call for veg oil and it always works for me. mine's a bit different, though, so i thought i'd share it too. definitely not grain free though :

2 cups flour (i use whole wheat pastry flour)
1 c old fashioned oats
1 t baking soda
1 t pumpkin pie spice
1/2 t salt
1 cup butter
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar (rapadura, sucanat, etc)
1 egg lightly beaten
1 t vanilla
1 cup pureed pumpkin
1 cup chocolate chips

preheat oven to 350 F. combine flour, oats, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice, and salt in a bowl. cream butter with mixer and gradually add sugars, beating until light and fluffy. add eggand vanilla, mix well. alternate adding dry ingredients and pumpkin, mixing well after each addition. for each cookie, drop 1/4 cup dough onto lightly greased cookie sheet (you can also spread them into a pumpkin shape with a spatula). bake 20-25 mintes or until cookies are firm and lightly browned. you can also spread nut butter on top as 'icing'

[treemom2]

oops, I just noticed I'm in the Traditional Foods forum. . .just disregard any of these ideas that don't jive with eating traditionally

Yum, I totally love pumpkin (Japanese and the large orange American kind, I also think most of these recipes would work for pretty much any kind of winter squash)! My favorite way to have it is pumpkin tenpura, but I'm not too big on deep frying in my house. DH will make it sometimes for me Tonight I cubed up a pumpkin and sauteed it in a pan with some onion, a lone potato I had, a couple tablespoons of garam masala, can of garbanzos in coconut oil, added some chicken broth and coconut milk and made up a yummy soup. I served it with rice, but you could skip the rice. I love pumpkin cooked in shoyu, sugar, mirin, and dashi. Love it in breads, cakes, pies, waffles, biscuits, pancakes. I like to sub it in baked goods for all or part of the oil along with some extra spices like nutmeg, ginger, cloves, allspice. Love it roasted in the oven with a little oil and some salt/pepper. I also like to make it on the grill, cut in half and clean out the seeds, add a little butter, salt, pepper then wrap in foil and leave it until done. Pumpkin butter is yummy (especially if you make it with homemade applesauce). Once my DH roasted a pumpkin and stuffed it with grains, sausage, herbs--it was yummy! mmmm, pumpkin seeds. I've heard you can mix pumpkin puree with ice cream for a yummy shake but I haven't tried it. You could can or freeze pumpkin puree to have it all the time.
Did I mention that I love, love, love pumpkin