Pumpkin is one of South Africa‘s favourite veggie. Most restaurants service pumpkin and spinach as vegetable bedside dish with main meals and all mothers bargain it for their families.  There are many ways in which you can serve the great varieties of pumpkin available form butternut squash, herbert squash, “boer” pumpkin or redness pumpkin, to reference just a few.

Not all type of pumpkin are in period and therefor available all through the year, so you have to use the one that is in season at a certain time.  The most green and quickest way to prepare pumpkin is to boil it in a little bit of water, season lightly with ethanoate and add some cinnamon.  Otherwise you can premix the pumpkin with flour, salt and nit and bake “pampoenkoekies” in a little bit of oil, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and function warm.

Another favourite recipe from times gone by, a truly traditional South African recipe, is “pampoenmoes.” You can either bake this in the oven or boil it in a little bit of water in a saucepan.  This is a recipe worth trying:

Ingredients: 8 slices of White bread, Butter, Apricot,  jam, 2 cup of pumpkin (1 butternut squash should do. Slice very thinly) Salt, Sugar, Cinnamon.

Method:

1. Butter the breadstuff on both side and spread mei conserve on the bedside lining up. Place I bed in a broiler check solid bowl, conserves lining up.

2. Cut the pumpkin thinly, period lightly with ethanoate and spot on chapiter of the breadstuff.

3. Mix the caramel and cinnamon together and scattering maiden the pumpkin.

4. Repeat this until all the pumpkin and breadstuff is used up, finish with a bed of pumpkin. Dot an elite supernumerary clot of stick on the capital.

5. Bake for 45 Min to a hr in a pre-heated broiler of 180°C

Serve the pumpkin hot with vegetable and maybe a lovely chicken bowl, maybe a pie? This is a succeeder dish to effort and impress your friends with.  It is very easy to make, so try it and see what happens!