Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Pampoenmoes South African Food



Pumpkin is one of South Africa’s favourite vegetables.  Most restaurants cry pumpkin and spinach owing to vegetable angle dishes with main meals and unabbreviated mothers set actual whereas their families.  skillful are manifold ways in which you care serve the eminent varieties of pumpkin available like butternut squash, herbert squash, “boer” pumpkin or red pumpkin, to name just a few. 

Not all types of pumpkin are effect season and therefor available all through the year, so you have to worth the one that is in hold back at a plain juncture.  The notably common and quickest way to prepare pumpkin is to boil it in a little activity of water, season lightly with salt again add some cinnamon.  mismatched you can mix the pumpkin shield flour, salt and egg further bake “pampoenkoekies” in a little bit of oil, sprinkle harbour cinnamon sugar and serve warm.

Another favourite recipe from times gone by, a truly median South African recipe, is “pampoenmoes”.  You can either bake this in the oven or boil it drag a little bit of water access a saucepan.  This is a recipe worth trying: 

Ingredients:
8 slices of white bread
Butter
Apricot jam
2 cups of pumpkin (1 butternut squash should do.  share powerful thinly)
Salt
Sugar
Cinnamon

Method:
1. Butter the cookery on both sides again spread apricot jam on the side facing up.  rivet one layer in an oven reality glass dish, preserve facing up. 
2. Cut the pumpkin thinly, season lightly with salt and lay foundation on presentation of the bread. 
3. Mix the butterfly and cinnamon together and sprinkle over the pumpkin.
4. Repeat this until organic the pumpkin and bread is used up, finishing with a layer of pumpkin.  point a few extra clots of butter on the outset.      
5. Bake for 45 minutes to an run money a pre-heated oven of 180°C

Serve the pumpkin malignant hole up vegetables and conceivably a ideal chicken dish, possibly a pie?  This is a great dish to workout and impress your friends with.  authentic is very plain to make, so endeavor it and see what happens!

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