In the kitchen
Celebrate Halloween with our healthy pumpkin recipes.
Pumpkin cream
Ingredients:
- 1 pumpkin
- 1 lt of water
- 1 spoon of cumin seeds
- 1 spoon of cumin seeds
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 thyme sprig
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 garlic clove
- extra virgin olive oil
- black pepper
Preparation:
- Clean the pumpkin well, then peel it with a sharp knife to remove all its seeds and fibrous strings.
- Cut it into pieces 3-4 cm long.
- Prepare the spice broth: boil some water with the cumin and coriander seeds, the bay leaf, the thyme, the cinnamon and the garlic. After 10 minutes filter the broth with a colander.
- In a pan, add the filtered broth to the pumpkin until it is fully covered in broth.
- Cover with a lid and cook for about 30 minutes, stirring every now and then.
- Move the mixture into a blender mug; switch it on and mix up to when you have obtained a dense and consistent mixture.
- Pour the cream into the pan one more time and flavour with oil and pepper.
- After a couple of minutes, turn off the flame and pour the pumpkin cream into the soup plates.
Chef's Tips:
You can decorate the dish with some roasted pumpkin seeds and a few slices of baked pumpkin.
Rosemary-flavoured pumpkin chips
Ingredients:
- 1 pumpkin
- extra virgin olive oil
- 2-3 rosemary sprigs
- parsley
Preparation:
- Clean the pumpkin well, then peel it with a sharp knife to remove all its seeds and fibrous strings.
- Cut the pumpkin into sticks.
- Cover a pan with parchment paper and then lay out the pumpkin sticks very close to one another, but not on top of each other.
- Brush with oil and spread the chopped-up parsley over the sticks.
- Bake at 180 °C for about 25-30 minutes until it browns off and gets crunchy.
- Serve with some chopped parsley.
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