I have never cooked a Thanksgiving dinner before, but this year we are going to have a Thanksgiving dinner for friends that can’t go home so I need to start thinking about the menu. Besides the traditional Thanksgiving food I want to include some of my own recipes and food from other countries because I’ll have friends from all over the world. I started experimenting last night and I came up with this mashed pumpkin side dish. I thought it was pretty good, but Jon didn’t have any because he said he is getting tired of pumpkin, like such thing could be possible! Take a look at the recipe and tell me what you think.
Mashed pumpkin
The ingredients:
- 4 cups roasted pumpkin
- 1/2 stick butter
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 cup milk
- 1 tsp powder pepper
- 1 tsp fresh basil
- 1 tsp fresh rosemary
- 1 tsp fresh sage
- 1 tsp oregano
- ground cinnamon
- salt and pepper to taste
The how-to:
- Melt butter in a medium size pot over medium heat. Saute garlic and add pumpkin.
- Mash pumpkin when it starts to warm up.
- Mix in milk and spices and bring to a boil stirring constantly
- Reduce heat to low, season and simmer for 5 minutes, keep stirring.
- Serve as a side dish.
I am using the last of my garden herbs and I added the powder pepper just to give it a little bit of a kick. I really liked this, but I am opened to suggestions. What about mixing some potatoes? Or using other kinds of ingredients?
¡Buen provecho!
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This reminds me of the mashed pumpkin I would have at home, very different in flavors. but similar in the simplicity of it. My mom would steam the pumpkins soft and used mustard oil, cilantro, hot green peppers and finally fire burnt dry red chillies – this one added the ultimate flavor and spice to the tender pumpkin. Don't know why I do not post these recipes.
Posted on November 6th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
With a dish like this, you could take the flavors in all kinds of directions! The sage and rosemary sound delicious here.
Posted on November 6th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
The photos are gorgeous with the background of the leaves. A comfort for this rainy day I've here. I always like to add paprika for some color and a hint of extra sweetness.
Cheers!
Gera
Posted on November 6th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Hey Ben, the calabaza looks delicious. Perfect for a Thanksgiving dinner.
Posted on November 6th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
I bet hubs would *love* this one!
I've got two pie pumpkins left that need to be dealt with…this might be a good way to go!
Posted on November 7th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
I'm trying this, Ben. I never tired of pumpkin. Never. It's the best food in the universe, as far as I'm concerned.
Posted on November 7th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Sounds perfect to me!!! I love the pictures as usual
Posted on November 7th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
This mashed pumpkin sounds good! I like to a a touch of maple syrup to mashed pumpkin.
Posted on November 8th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Great idea to make pumpkin mash, if you ask me what do I think, I would choose just using rosemary or sage but not both as they are both strong. I may add a little curry powder to the mash.
Posted on November 8th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
I think only you can make pumpkin look so pretty. I need to mash up some pumpkin soon. I have all kinds of ideas for it.
Posted on November 9th, 2009 at 4:35 am
Looks yummy…awesome click.
Posted on November 9th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
HOla
, están estupendas tus fotos! Felicitaciones por la comida y las fotos.
Gaby
Posted on November 9th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Call me goofy but I prefer non-traditional food on Thanksgiving and mom is forced to make Romanian dishes instead of turkey.
We gutted about 4 pie pumpkins last week and besides having a ton of seeds we have about 8 cups of pumpkin the needs a use. Love this idea!!!
Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
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