Easiest Way to Make Yummy Whole Pumpkin Gratin

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Searching online for any "recipe in pumpkin shell" yielded a few recipes similar to this delicious-looking whole pumpkin apple casserole. But I wanted something savory and cheesy like a gratin or strata. I did find this amazing-looking Pumpkin and Cabot Habanero Cheddar Soufflés recipe to add to my To-Try file. You can cook Whole Pumpkin Gratin using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Whole Pumpkin Gratin

1. Prepare 1 of pumpkin (kabocha).
2. Prepare 1 of onion (slice thinly).
3. It's 1/2-1 pack of shimeji mushrooms (tear into bite sized pieces).
4. You need 100 g of bacon, or as much as you like (cut into bite sized pieces).
5. Prepare 10-20 g of butter.
6. It's 2 Tbsp of flour.
7. Prepare 1/2-1 of bouillon cube (optional).
8. It's 500-600 ml of milk.
9. Prepare of Cheese (as much as you want).
10. You need 2 tbsp of panko bread crumbs.
11. You need of salt and pepper.

Sprinkle with the remaining cheese and the bread crumbs. As you scoop the soup/gratin out, you pull the pumpkin flesh with it, and the whole thing is just sumptuous. We serve it with crispy fried sage and, when I really have my act together, candied bacon. Place the whole pumpkin on a large, rimmed baking sheet.

Whole Pumpkin Gratin step by step

1. Wash the pumpkin and cover with plastic wrap and cook in the microwave until softened. ＊Be careful not to heat it up too much. (reference: 8~10 mins in 700W).
2. Cut about 1/4 of the upper part of the pumpkin. Scoop out the seeds and scrape pumpkin meat from shell. (leave at least 1 cm of the shell).
3. Heat the butter in a pan over medium heat, stir fry onion, shimeji mushrooms, bacon until the onions are browned. Turn down the heat and add the flour and mix well. Pour the milk little by little to get the smooth sauce. Add the pumpkin meat, salt and pepper and cook until thickened.(adjust the thickness to your taste).
4. Pour the mixture into the pumpkin, sprinkle cheese and panko bread crumbs on top and bake in 200℃ oven for 20~25 mins or until heated thoroughly. (Cheese starts to brown and panko bread crumbs are golden).

Gratin In a buttered baking dish, mix slices of roasted sugar pumpkin with sautéed leeks, goat cheese, and chopped toasted hazelnuts. Drizzle with cream; bake gratin until heated through. Pie pumpkin, turban, kabocha, and blue Hubbard are good choices. Unlike the first recipe, you can roast your pumpkin whole, without the worry of tough-to-cut pumpkin combined with potentially-slick-sharp-knives. Once the pumpkin's roasted, you can cut it and puree the flesh.