Roast pumpkin with cream, thyme & Parmesan

Roast pumpkin with cream, thyme & Parmesan

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Cooking time

Prep: 10 mins Cook: 1 hr, 45 mins

Skill level

Easy

Servings

Serves 6

This impressive-looking dish makes a wonderful starter for a dinner party

Nutrition and extra info

Additional info

  • Vegetarian
Nutrition info

Nutrition

kcalories
342
protein
8g
carbs
6g
fat
32g
saturates
18g
fibre
2g
sugar
5g
salt
0.33g
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Ingredients

  • 1½ kg pumpkins
  • 300ml pot double cream
  • 150ml milk
  • 3 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 2 tsp thyme leaves
  • 85g grated parmesan (or vegetarian alternative)

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  • Tip

    Using squash

    As a smart prepare-ahead starter or side, make this roast pumpkin dish using much smaller squash and serve each guest their own one, as in the photograph above.

Method

  1. Heat oven to 150C/130C fan/gas 2. Cut lid off pumpkin and scoop out seeds and strands. Put the pumpkin on a baking tray. Meanwhile, heat the cream, milk, garlic and most of the thyme, with plenty of seasoning. When hot, pour into the pumpkin and stir in 50g of the Parmesan. Put on the lid.
  2. Bake for 1½ hrs, take from the oven, then turn up the heat to 200C/180C fan/ gas 6. Remove the lid, sprinkle with pepper and the rest of the cheese, then bake for 15 mins more until golden. Scatter over the remaining thyme leaves. Scoop the pumpkin flesh into bowls with the cheesy cream and serve with crusty bread as a starter.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2009

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simonbuysellit11:02, 19th Dec, 2012

anyone know if i can find pumpkins for christmas? would be great for xmas eve me thinks.

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-clare-09:34, 5th Nov, 2012
5

This is absolutely delicious & ridiculously easy to make! I used mini squashes & munchkins which even my veggie averse hubby enjoyed eating. I used tin foil as a precaution, only 1 leaked a little & I was then able to tip the cream back into the squash from the foil.

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miss_martha09:36, 31st Oct, 2012

Delicious! I made it tonight (Halloween) with smoked cheddar. Had it with chilli bread to dip in, really good.

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adelaidefreville04:57, 7th Apr, 2012
5

Beautiful and delicious!
First attempt with double cream and Parmesa, and second one with coco milk and curry paste (Rogan Josh): both are very good. And a wow factor when you bring it on the table!

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cecilybarton11:04, 3rd Feb, 2011
5

This was very impressive looking and incredibly tasty. I'll definitely be making it again.

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siobhandowling11:35, 26th Oct, 2010

This was just superb! We added chilli, split the parmesan amount with gruyere. Simply divine...our only problem was we didn't bake enough bread! Will definitely be doing this again with the rest of our Pumpkin crop!

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siobhandowling11:35, 26th Oct, 2010

This was just superb! We added chilli, split the parmesan amount with gruyere. Simply divine...our only problem was we didn't bake enough bread! Will definitely be doing this again with the rest of our Pumpkin crop!

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anlwspc03:18, 10th Nov, 2009
5

Absolutely delicious!! I used little pumkins with tin foil around them just in case they split, but they didn't as I only cooked them for about 40 minutes, watching them carefully. We had them as starters and my guest just kept saying MMMMMMMMMMMM in between mouthfulls. They looked lovely sitting on the plates with the lid placed on one side. This is a favourite from now on.

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m2mlk110:12, 26th Oct, 2009

I tried this recipe tonight and it's very tasty. Don't over season with salt though - the parmesan takes care of most of it!

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charlit10:46, 17th Oct, 2009
5

This was absolutely delicious! I used very small pumpkins and we had one each as a main course with a salad and a chickpea, rocket and cumin dish. However, maybe because the pumpkins were small, they both burst in the oven after about 50 minutes. Some of the cream ran out, but the loud hissing from the oven alerted me to what was happening and I was able to save the rest with tin foil tourniquets :-) - next time though I won't be roasting them as long, and maybe wrapping the bottom halves in tin foil to begin with. I used pecorino romano in stead of parmesan which was very nice. Next time I think I'll try replacing the cream with cottage cheese.

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