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Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal342
  • fat32g
  • saturates18g
  • carbs6g
  • sugars5g
  • fibre2g
  • protein8g
  • salt0.33g
    low
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Method

  • step 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.

  • step 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 TIPS
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.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2009

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A star rating of 4.5 out of 5.18 ratings

jhbakes

The pumpkin didn't leak, but it also didn't bake in the recommended time. I baked it 30 minutes longer. Then I ended up having to cut it into chunks and baked it in a casserole dish for another hour. Not a lot of taste to it. Will have to try again after doctoring it up. It has potential, but this…

palmachristifoundation98752

A very effective and speed up process of this recipe, is to cube the pumpkin and cook in butter on stovetop with black pepper. Approx 10 mins. Then put in baking dish, add cream sauce and bake for 20 min

16.59

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Delicious soup. Second time round with this recipe, I added some diced smoked bacon and sage croutons to the soup: dry fry a rasher or two of chopped smoked bacon and when crisped and fat rendered add some torn sage leaves for the last minute. Sprinkle a few spoonfuls onto the top of each little…

josettehammenborn@gmail.com

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

To be honest I was a bit nervous doing it for the first time when we had invited some guests over at our house. I had no idea how it was going to turn out and I had even prepared the wrong plates to serve it in! The result was divine. Mine didn't leak that much but I assume it's a natural thing as…

Mrsbeard

Raging success! The only reason one of mine leaked was because I had to chop a bit off the bottom to make it stand up. Guests totally impressed though. Minimum effort for maximum wow factor. What's not to love?

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