What's a great recipe for using up Halloween pumpkin?

Answer 1

feed it to raccoons

Answer 2

Sweet red pumpkin pie

INGREDIENTS

5-6 servings
1 kg red pumpkin 1,5 cup sugar 1/2 cup rice 2 cups olive oil Salt Cinammon 1 cup grated mitzythra cheese from Mytilini (mitzythra tastes like ricotta) 4 hand made filo sheets for a 36 cm size pan.

METHOD
Grate the pumpkin and place it in a bowl. Open a small hole in the middle and place the rice. Let the mixture for hours or even for the night. Then, drain the mixture by squeezing the pumpkin with your hands, and preserve the juice in a bowl. Mix sugar, salt, cinammon, 1 cup olive oil and the grated cheese with the pumpkin and the rice mixture. Work the mixture with your hands well. Roll out the dough and make four sheets of filo. Oil a baking pan and place the first filo sheet. The sheet should come up above the top of the pan. Oil it and then place the second filo above the first one. It should also come up above the top of the pan. Spread the mixture on top of the two sheets, fold over the bottom filo sheets and oil them. Place the third sheet on top of the mixture and oil it. Cover it with the fourth sheet. Oil it and slice off any parts of the sheets that have remained. Score the top sheet with a knife into squares. Beat the remaining olive oil with some sugar and 2 cups of the pumpkin juice that you have preserved and pour it over the pie. Spread it well over the surface of the pie. Bake in 200 C until the pie takes a rose colour.

Answer 3

Tagliatelle with pumpkin. recipe for 6 people
Tagliatelle Pasta 80 grams per person
600g of yellow pumpkin
2 bits of garlic
6 spoonfulls of extra virgin olive oil
1 spoonfull of chopped parsley
salt, pepper
60g parmasean

slice the pumpkin and let it dry in a hot oven for some minutes then take away the thick skin and chop into cubes. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan and fry the pieces of garlic with half a spoonfull of the parsley then add the cubed pumpkin wait for some seconds add the remaining parsley salt and pepper cook until the pumpkin becomes tender but not mushy. While your pumpkin is cooking boil water for the pasta add the pasta to salted water and cook until the pasta is soft but not too soft, drain the water from the pasta and add the tagliatelle to the pumpkin stir for some moments then serve on the plate sprinkle with parmasean cheese.

Answer 4

Pumpkin Soup!

How to make pumpkin soup:
Favorite American soup. If you are adventurous you could try and serve the soup in half a pumpkin shell.


Ingredients

4 tablespoons butter
1 Spanish onion (chopped finely)
20 fluid oz chicken stock or vegetable stock
small pumpkin peeled and cubed
20 fluid oz hot milk
pinch of allspice
salt and pepper
chopped parsley
(see measure conversions for more information)

Method

- Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a big saucepan and soften the onion in it.
- Add the stock and bring it to the boil.
- Add the pumpkin and simmer until tender.
- Allow to cool and put into a blender or food processor until smooth.
- Return to the saucepan and add the hot milk and all of the seasoning.
- Serve hot with the remaining butter stirred in at the last minute and garnished with the chopped parsley and croutons.

And Good luck

Answer 5

Pumpkin under syrup - Zucca sciroppata JAM


Clean the pumpkin and cut it in small cubes (around 2 cm.). Boil for a few minutes in slightly salted water. It mustn’t cook too much.
Now weight the pumpkin, take the same weight of sugar and put it in a pan with a little water (1 dl. per kilo approx.). Make the syrup on the low flame and when it starts boiling add pumpkin cubes and cook till they are soft but not mashed.
Put then the drained pumpkin cubes in glass containers, grate ginger over the syrup, cook for a few minutes and pour it over the pumpkin cubes. Seal and store. Label and enjoy.

Answer 6

Spicy pumpkin soup, put a good lot of the pumpkin in a pan with a chicken stock cube and about a pint and half of water, add a good dash of chilli powder or even a fresh chilli and simmer until soft, put in blender and whizz till lumps have gone and its nice and thick, serve with a nice swirl of single cream, lovely, don't forget to dry roast the pumpkin seeds in the oven, they make great snacks when your peckish and there good and healthy for you too.

Answer 7

Pumpkin Mash.
Dice pumpkin when removed from skin.......cut up potatoes to same size and boil in lightly salted water for about 15-20 minutes.
When soft, drain, add black pepper, a little milk, a knob of butter, and mash. Ensure no lumps, serve with anything. Absolutely wonderful and very good for you too.

Or

Pumpkin, Squash and Pineapple
Dice and boil for 15-20 minutes pumpkin and squash together.
Drain, put into an ovenproof dish and add a small knob of butter, open a can of pineapple and add a few chunks, place dish in oven for 10 minutes. Serve with Lasange and green salad and crusty bread

Answer 8

Gourmet Pumpkin Pie

1 (9 inch) unbaked pie shell
1/4 cup chopped pecans
3 2/3 cups pumpkin puree
1 egg
14 ounces sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup butter
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
When making your favorite pastry for pie shells add 1/4 cup of the finely chopped pecans to the flour before mixing.
Blend the egg, pumpkin and condensed milk. Pour mixture into the unbaked pie shell.
Combine the brown sugar, flour, chopped pecans, butter and cinnamon with a fork until crumbly. Sprinkle streusel mixture on top of pumpkin mixture.
Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 50 to 55 minutes or until a knife inserted in near the center comes out clean. Let pie cool before serving.

Answer 9

Pumpkin pasta. Cook pumpkin innards in vegetable stock for about 40 mins. Add a half glass of white wine, pinch of salt and pepper and a glug of cream/Elmlea. Meanwhile boil up the pasta according to instructions on the packet, drain pasta, mix in sauce and serve.

It's yummy but does stink the house out a bit. Good for keeping the trick or treaters away, though.

Answer 10

You only have to go to Google and you will get a large choice of recipes for soup (creamy and yummy), pie (even better than custard tart), pancakes (the kids love them).
I also use pumpkin in stew, curry, souffles, mixed with potatoes in mash, grilled with cheese topping, and have made pumpkin preserve in the past.

Answer 11

Find a good recipe from the web to do a good pumpkin soap and serve them to the family. You can also do pumpkin pancakes and top them with cream and honey.