Mashed Pumpkin

Appetizers and Side dishes — By Ben on 06 November 2009
Mashed Pumpkin

Mashed pumpkin

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.

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Mashed Pumpkin
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Recipe type: Side Dish
Cuisine: American
 

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

Instructions
  1. Melt butter in a medium size pot over medium heat. Saute garlic and add pumpkin.
  2. Mash pumpkin when it starts to warm up.
  3. Mix in milk and spices and bring to a boil stirring constantly
  4. Reduce heat to low, season and simmer for 5 minutes, keep stirring.
  5. Serve as a side dish.
  6. 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?

Mashed pumpkin

¡Buen provecho!

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Ben

grew up around food. His family owned a restaurant in Mexico City and he spent a big deal of his childhood helping and learning after school the art of creating delicious dishes from simple ingredients. He created this blog to share his kitchen adventures with the world.

(13) Readers Comments

  1. November 9, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    Looks yummy…awesome click.

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  2. November 9, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    HOla :) , están estupendas tus fotos! Felicitaciones por la comida y las fotos.
    Gaby

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  3. November 10, 2009 at 4:27 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!!!

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