Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pumpkin compote. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Pumpkin compote, or "doce de abóbora" in Portuguese. In this recipe, pumpkin and sugar are slowly cooked on the stovetop. Some people add coconut to the mix, but I prefer the basic version.
Pumpkin Compote is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Pumpkin Compote is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pumpkin compote using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pumpkin Compote:
- Prepare 1 kg pumpkin, peeled and cut into pieces.
- Make ready 700 grams granulated sugar
- Make ready 1 cinnamon stick, (I added 2 sticks)
- Make ready 1 tsp Orange peel, grated
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
Improved metabolic processes in the body, the heart muscle begins to work better. We wash the pumpkin under running water, wipe it dry with a towel. With a knife, peel the pumpkin, then cut it in half and remove the seeds and the fibrous part with a spoon. One of our traditional pumpkin recipes is this Pumpkin Coconut Compote that we call "Doce de Abóbora com Coco"; which, if translated literally, would be Pumpkin and Coconut Sweet.
Instructions to make Pumpkin Compote:
- Cook the pumpkin in water for around 30 to 40 minutes. You want it soft enough to be able to mash it.
- When cooked drain the pumpkin in a sieve for a good while. Then mash well making sure there is no lumps.
- Add the mashed pumpkin back into the sieve. The pumpkin will hold a lot of water so you want to lose as much of that water as possible. I used a good amount of kitchen roll to squeeze some of the water out of the pumpkin.
- On a medium to low heat, In the same pan used to boil the pumpkin, add all the above ingredients including the mashed pumpkin.
- Simmer for about 20-25 minutes. Stirring regularly ensuring it's not sticking to the bottom.
- When it's cooked through remove the cinnamon sticks
- Transfer the compote to a sterilised glass jar, leave the lid off until its completely cooled off.
- Seal and store upto 1 month in a cool dry place.
However, I've decided that Compote is more appropriate. Compote is a french dessert made of whole or pieces of fruit in sugar syrup. For pumpkin compote fit only clean vegetables, well washed and cut into pieces. Slicing a pumpkin, try to make you get uniform, the same size cubes. Such kompotik will be more pleasant to look.
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