Whole Pumpkin Gratin
Whole Pumpkin Gratin

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, whole pumpkin gratin. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Whole Pumpkin Gratin is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Whole Pumpkin Gratin is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

"Before I came to America, I never tasted pumpkin pie. I have come to love it, but I still enjoy a savory pumpkin gratin like I had in my youth," says the master French chef and author of the new. You CAN cook a whole pumpkin in your oven!

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have whole pumpkin gratin using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Whole Pumpkin Gratin:
  1. Make ready pumpkin (kabocha)
  2. Take onion (slice thinly)
  3. Take shimeji mushrooms (tear into bite sized pieces)
  4. Get bacon, or as much as you like (cut into bite sized pieces)
  5. Make ready butter
  6. Take flour
  7. Make ready bouillon cube (optional)
  8. Prepare milk
  9. Make ready Cheese (as much as you want)
  10. Prepare panko bread crumbs
  11. Get salt and pepper

Searching online for any "recipe in pumpkin shell" yielded a few recipes similar to this delicious-looking whole pumpkin apple casserole. But I wanted something savory and cheesy like a gratin or strata. I did find this amazing-looking Pumpkin and Cabot Habanero Cheddar Soufflés recipe to add to my To-Try file. Ingredients- pumpkin, cauliflower, onion, garlic, coconut milk, canola oil, olive oil, sunflower oil, herbs, spice, salt, pepper.

Steps to make Whole Pumpkin Gratin:
  1. Wash the pumpkin and cover with plastic wrap and cook in the microwave until softened. *Be careful not to heat it up too much. (reference: 8~10 mins in 700W)
  2. Cut about 1/4 of the upper part of the pumpkin. Scoop out the seeds and scrape pumpkin meat from shell. (leave at least 1 cm of the shell)
  3. Heat the butter in a pan over medium heat, stir fry onion, shimeji mushrooms, bacon until the onions are browned. Turn down the heat and add the flour and mix well. Pour the milk little by little to get the smooth sauce. Add the pumpkin meat, salt and pepper and cook until thickened.(adjust the thickness to your taste)
  4. Pour the mixture into the pumpkin, sprinkle cheese and panko bread crumbs on top and bake in 200℃ oven for 20~25 mins or until heated thoroughly. (Cheese starts to brown and panko bread crumbs are golden)

Reviews There are no reviews yet. The real reason why I prepared this pumpkin, zucchini and potato gratin was to clean some leftovers from my fridge. I had a piece of raw pumpkin, one lonely zucchini and a small carton of heavy cream - all in the last days of their life. At the same time I was also craving potatoes. Break up tomatoes with hands, allowing juices to drain.

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