How to Cook Appetizing Whole Pumpkin Gratin

Whole Pumpkin Gratin. Great recipe for Whole Pumpkin Gratin. We can enjoy not only its deliciousness but also its appearance. On the day of serving, fill the cold pumpkin with roasted veggies, gratin, or bread pudding.

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. You can cook Whole Pumpkin Gratin using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Whole Pumpkin Gratin

1. Prepare of pumpkin (kabocha).
2. Prepare of onion (slice thinly).
3. You need of shimeji mushrooms (tear into bite sized pieces).
4. Prepare of bacon, or as much as you like (cut into bite sized pieces).
5. Prepare of butter.
6. Prepare of flour.
7. You need of bouillon cube (optional).
8. You need of milk.
9. Prepare of Cheese (as much as you want).
10. Prepare of panko bread crumbs.
11. Prepare of salt and pepper.

This is a tasty way to have pumpkin in a savory, rather than sweet, dish. In a large bowl, combine pumpkin, thyme, and chives. Break up tomatoes with hands, allowing juices to drain. Stir tomatoes, mushrooms, sausage, and parsley into stew.

Whole Pumpkin Gratin instructions

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).

Place pumpkin top next to pumpkin on the pan. Serve stew along with spoonfuls of pumpkin. Bake a casserole inside a pumpkin—it's festive and there's less dishes to wash! Get the recipe from Favorite Family Recipes. There's something epic about roasting a whole squash and then slicing giant wedges out of it with a carving knife.