Green pumpkin looking squash...?
A neighbor gave my cousin a big green squash--it looks like a big green pumpkin! Anyone know what kind of squash that would be? Can I eat it? Cook it? I was gonna try to braise or roast it like I would any winter squash, does anyone have any ideas, warnings, tips?
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5 Comments:
does it look like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabocha
hmw0029 at 5:00PM on 10/02/09
If it's a kabocha, it'll bake up a little dry. Braising is probably better. Kabocha are wonderful sweet squashes. There's one sitting in my kitchen at this moment, making Bambi eyes at me.
gentlyferal at 2:54AM on 10/03/09
It could be a cross, as well - the result of a volunteer that came up in the garden that the neighbor let grow. It would be edible, but not predictable. Braising sounds like a good idea.
Be adventurous and imagine yourself one of those ancient humans we need to thank, who tried novel plants they encountered in the world and decided what was good and safe. I this case it will be safe, and you just have to decide if it's good.
lemonfair at 7:15AM on 10/03/09
Kabocha's are usually not HUGE. Sure they can get big, but most specimins aren't much bigger than an acorn squash.
They're that crescent shaped orange and green bit you might see in your tempura at a Japanese restaurant.
The flesh is dense and sweet. A bit like acorn squash, but with a sweet-potato like texture.
Maybe it's a hubbard? I've seen some that were squat and pumpkin-like.
fuuchan at 12:21PM on 10/03/09
Hubbards are good eating, too; sweet and dense. I was told, long ago, that the squash that goes into commercial "pumpkin pie filling" is actually Hubbard squash. I'm inclined to believe it, because the few times I've made pumpkin pie from actual pumpkin, it was bland and watery by comparison.
gentlyferal at 3:09PM on 10/05/09