Whats a great recipe for using up Halloween pumpkin?
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 thir
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.
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.
