Learn how to process a pumpkin from garden to table! We show you how to harvest seeds and roast and puree a pumpkin! www.homemadefo... www.homemadefo...
Pumpkin innards can be used for more than just feeding to dogs. They also make excellent additions to vegetable stock, and can be dried to make a bread out of. Also, the skins can be turned into chips.
10:08; ohhhh cool. Been wondering about this, city kid that I am haha. Can one also just, like, eat it like that? Like as if I was eating a butternut squash that I roasted in the oven? Which I sometimes do? Could just eat the pumpkin “meat” with lots of butter and brown sugar and cinnamon poured onto it? If I can do so, I do not think I would make to the next step of mashing it down and putting it into a pie. hahaha. Although I certainly love me some pumpkin pie! Alas! Never have had a genuine homemade pumpkin pie though, as you apparently do make.
i started wondering about this because I eat about a pound of toasted salted pumpkin seeds a week! 😅 haha I chose them to become my “goto” healthy alternative to potatoe chips as my crunchy lunch time addition at my job, because I only make my own lunch each day. The Mexican folks call them “pepitas”. And at my local grocery they are only sold as pepitas. Which is simply the Spanish word for pumpkin seeds. Either way I started wondering about pumpkins and the supply chain farm to table implications because I eat soooooo much pepitas every week!
I am now processing a pie pumkin and a butternut squash. Im saving the seeds from both, and i would like to know why you boil the seeds before roasting or dehydrating them? Ultimately, i will be powdering those seeds to add flavor and nutrition to dishes.
Great instructions!! Sugar-Pie Pumpkins are what you can eat? Gees I bought a pumpkin from the Amish but it is about 8- 10 pounds in weight. I have no idea what variety it is. I assumed you can eat it. Nobody said anything about eating quality. I should’ve asked but assumed you can eat them. Sill pad matt is what you use so pumpkin seeds do not stick.
Hi Rob, well that’a big pumpkin. Go ahead and roast it and see if it gets sweet. If it does and the texture is fairly smooth when you purée it it might make good pie. And I like to use silicone mats for the baking sheets but if you don’t have those you can oil the pan. You should get a lot of yummy seeds to roast. If the pumpkin is not sweet you can still eat it if it taste good to you. Just cook it and eat it with butter and salt and pepper. Also you can bake pumpkin bread, muffins and that sort of thing. Best of luck!
Hi JJ! Roast the pumpkin at 400 degrees F. Use convection if you have it. Thanks for the questions! Here is the complete post if you need more details. Happy harvesting! www.homemadefoodjunkie.com/homemade-roasted-pumpkin-puree/
We usually just cook the pumpkin seeds in the oven, You can add the skin into a smoothie after it is cooked. But there really isn't much food value left. If you have a dog, the love to eat the skins and the pumpkin filling.
