"Pampoenmoes", South African Food!

"Pampoenmoes", South African Food!

Pumpkin is one of South Africa’s preferred vegetables. Most eating places serve pumpkin and spinach as vegetable aspect dishes with predominant foods and all moms purchase it for their families. There are many methods in which you can serve the super sorts of pumpkin accessible like butternut squash, herbert squash, “boer” pumpkin or crimson pumpkin, to point out simply a few.

Not all kinds of pumpkin are in season and therefor on hand all via the year, so you have to use the one that is in season at a positive time. The most frequent and quickest way to put together pumpkin is to boil it in a little bit of water, season gently with salt and add some cinnamon. Else you can blend or mix the pumpkin in with flour, salt and egg and prepare "pampoenkoekies" shortly of oil, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and serve warm.

Another favored recipe from instances long past by, a virtually standard South African recipe, is “pampoenmoes”. You can both bake this in the oven or boil it in a little bit of water in a saucepan. This is a recipe well worth trying:

Ingredients:

8 slices of white bread

Butter

Apricot jam

2 cups of pumpkin (1 butternut squash must do. Slice very thinly)

Salt

Sugar

Cinnamon

Method:

1. Butter the bread on each facets and unfold apricot jam on the aspect going through up. Place one layer in an oven proof glass dish, jam going through up.

2. Cut the pumpkin thinly, season gently with salt and location on pinnacle of the bread.

3. Mix the sugar and cinnamon collectively and sprinkle over the pumpkin.

4. Repeat this till all the pumpkin and bread is used up, ending with a layer of pumpkin. Dot a few more clots of butter on the top.

5. Bake for forty five minutes to an hour in a pre-heated oven of 180°C

Serve the pumpkin warm with veggies and possibly a beautiful fowl dish, possibly a pie? This is a notable dish to attempt and galvanize your buddies with. It is very handy to make, so strive it and see what happens!