Inside of a Pumpkin
Hi, I am carving pumpkins this weekend. I was wondering if there was anything I could bake/cook with the insides. I know I can make pumpkin seeds, but what about the inside stringy stuff. Please let me know. Thanks!
Happy Halloween!
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6 Comments:
To my knowledge, and I've been cooking/carving pumpkins for years, there is nothing you can do with that stuff. That being said, I believe it is edible - I saw Jamie Oliver cooking squash the other day with all the seeds and stringy stuff included... I cook pumpkin only to get the flesh for pies and other sweet baking - perhaps if you stuffed a pumpkin with savoury ingredients (and I have a friend who has a great recipe for such a thing) you could leave the stringy bits in and have that included in.....
Maureen at 2:54PM on 10/24/09
hmmm... because of its stringiness, you would have to cook it really well or use a blender on it. then its pumpkin puree and you can use it for lots of things.
blizcheetah at 3:24PM on 10/24/09
Maybe you could throw it in the pot if you were making stock as a base for a pumpkin soup? Then you'd get any flavor from it, without actually eating it. I've never tried it, though. It may be bitter.
yayfood at 9:27PM on 10/24/09
Unless it's an "eating" pumpkin, throw it in the compost pile.
WickedGoodDinner at 11:09PM on 10/24/09
similar to @yayfood's idea- I saw an ATC episode where they were making butternut squash soup, and they saute-d the stringy stuff (with seeds) and added water and strained it out to extract more squash flavor. I don't remember the exact recipe but it may work with pumpkins too. I prefer butternut squash tho :-P
hmw0029 at 1:19PM on 10/25/09
oops, I meant ATK! not sure where the C came from!
hmw0029 at 2:02PM on 10/25/09