Take those fresh pumpkins or your Halloween pumpkins into delicious recipes. Here’s how to cook a pumpkin and make pumpkin puree.
Did you go in search of the perfect pumpkin for the absolutely perfect pumpkins and pies this year? Did you travel every pumpkin patch until the most perfect pumpkins revealed themselves?
And then you found the most perfect pumpkins in the entire patch. And you loved those pumpkins.
And they were the best Jack O’ Lanterns on the block for Halloween. Oh, the joy of these perfect pumpkin!
But now it’s the day after and you can’t bring yourself to throw away your much-loved pumpkins.
No worries, you don’t have to throw anything away. We can make them into the most perfect pies, bread, mousse or any of the other loved pumpkin dishes floating through the air this time of the year.
We are here today to show you how to cook a pumpkin and make pumpkin puree. It’s not really that hard the skin is a little tough but we are only cutting it in quarters.
Seriously the real cooked pumpkin is out of this world amazing! Pumpkin puree from fresh pumpkins especially if they were “The Perfect Pumpkins”!
Hope you enjoy our instructions on how to cook a pumpkin. And let us know what you would like to do with the fresh puree.
How to Cook a Pumpkin
How to cook a pumpkin to make pumpkin puree
Prep Time30 mins
Cook Time45 mins
Total Time1 hr 15 mins
Ingredients
- Fresh whole Pumpkins or leftover carved pumpkins
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cut the pumpkins into hand size chunks. No need to peel them yet. If you haven’t already, clean out seeds and pulp. (save seeds for roasting later)
- Place pumpkin pieces on a baking sheet lined with the parchment paper cut side up (so the skin is touching the baking sheet. This way if the pumpkin get a little too brown on the bottom, it’s on the peel which will be removed)
- Roast for about 45 minutes until they are fork tender.
- Peel off the skin from the pumpkin pieces or scoop out the meat of the pumpkin with a large spoon. Discard skin.
- Place pumpkin in a food processor, a few scoops at a time. Working in batches, pulse until the pumpkin is smooth.
- Use immediately or place in freezer bags and freeze.
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Linda Nortje
November 4, 2015 at 11:51 amIn SA we only eat the pumpkin ..lol, never seen a pumpkin cut-out in real life ! And it looks like so much fun 😀
Jamie Sherman
November 5, 2015 at 3:48 amI have always wanted to make homemade pumpkin puree!