One Pumpkin variety dishes:

One Pumpkin variety dishes:

    
    Bought 1 medium size Pumpkin for Halloween. It was lying in one corner of my dinning room since then. Yesterday while cleaning, I saw it and think what to do with it, as it too big for us two. But suddenly, I became scare of our saying, that if the seeds from inside sprouts then it brings bad luck. So I made my husband to cut it in several pieces. Thank god seeds hadn't sprout yet. Now problem is still the same what I gonna do with all those pieces. We normally, either make curry of chatani(Aachar). Then, I thought why not try different recipe, that are available in youtube videos posting.

First one I try was

Pumpkin Bread: Recipe by Hilah Johnson

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 2 cups pumpkin puree (15-16 ounce can)
• ¾ cup brown sugar
• ⅓ cup oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon ginger
• ¼ teaspoon cloves
• ¼ cup pumpkin seeds

Instructions

1. Set oven to 350ºF and grease a large (9x5") loaf pan.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, pumpkin, sugar, oil and vanilla.
3. Sprinkle in dry ingredients and stir to just combine.
4. Spread into loaf pan and sprinkle with pumpkin seeds.
5. Bake 1 hour. Turn oven off and open the door and let pumpkin loaf cool in oven for 15 minutes.
6. Remove to a rack to cool completely.

I didn't have all ingredients and feel too lazy to do grocery on that day. Since, I do have most of them, so I made Pumpkin Bread. May not be exact taste as it should be. But is too good for first try. Hope you may want try this recipe too and enjoy different taste of Pumpkin.

2.   Next one I tried was Pumpkin Halwa(Sweet dessert): VahChef

Ingredients

1 cup Apple medium sized pieces
1 cup Apple puree
1 piece Butter Slice
1 tsp Cardamom powder
pinch Cinnamon powder
1 cup Dry Fruits (cashew nuts, almonds, raisins)
2 tbsp. Ghee/ Clarified butter
250 grams Red pumpkin, boiled and mashed
Sugar as per taste

Directions:

     Cut the red pumpkin into small cubes and pressure cook until cooked and then mash the pumpkin pieces well and keep aside. Add around 2 tbsp. of ghee in a hot pan, add 1 cup of nuts (cashew nuts, almonds and raisins), sauté over low heat and once the raisins puff up, add in the mashed pumpkin. Add sugar (as per sweetness desired), mix and cook till all the sugar get dissolved and the mixture becomes thick. Add 1 tsp cardamom powder to the pumpkin mixture and mix well. Switch off the flame. Take another pan; add a cup of sugar and a cup of apple puree (peel the skin and make the puree). Cook this well. When the sugar gets completely dissolved add a piece of butter and mix. When the butter melts, add small pieces of apple, simmer and cook for around 10 minutes until all the apple pieces become soft. Add a pinch of crushed cinnamon or cinnamon powder and mix. Once the apples are soften then switch off the flame. Take a bowl and spread the apple mixture towards the sides of bowl and put the pineapple halwa in the center and serve.

    For this recipe I had all the ingredients at home. It did turn out to be really good. I will definitely use this recipe for next gathering with friends and family as a dessert with vanilla ice-cream or Whipping Cream.