Creamy Pumpkin Pasta Sauce

I bought pumpkin the other day and I was wondering what to do with it. Should I make a pie, or a nice pot of soup... and I decided why not try making a nice pasta sauce?

I was looking online and all I really saw was how there were only chunks of pumpkin added and not really a pumpkin sauce. So I decided to give it a go. So pumpkin lovers rejoice, this sauce could essentially remind you of a pumpkin pie... just that it's not sweet and instead it's more savoury and flavourful.

Ingredients:

Pumpkin 

Brown Onion

Thyme

Rosemary

Thicken Cream

Cooking Oil

(Nutmeg) 

(Cumin)

 

This is just the sauce recipe since I'm pretty sure many would already know how to cook the pasta :p Just boil it!

• Step 1, heat up water in a pot 
• Step 2, while waiting for the water to boil, cut up the pumpkin and onion
• Step 3, add the pumpkin to the boiling water
• Step 4, when the pumpkin has soften, place it in a bowl and give it a good mash
• Step 5, add in the herbs and thicken cream and give it a good mix till uniform
• Step 6, in a saucepan, add in a little cooking oil and sautee the onions
• Step 7, when the onions have caramalised, add in the pumpkin mixture.
• Step 8, taste test and alter the recipe to your liking :) And you're done!!

This is a nice recipe to try if you don't know what you want to do with your pumpkin. I usually run out of ideas with pumpkins and usually if it's used in cooking, it's not the main star of the dish. So if you're a pumpkin lover, I'm sure you'd like that the pumpkin is the absolute main focus of this dish :D 

 

You can use a potato masher for the pumpkins as well :) It makes life so much easier if you own a potato masher. No more using the back of the spoon or fork and tediously trying to mash everything evenly! 

Hugs for everyone~ Have a smashing time!

Sitr fried potato noodles

I love the chewy texture that potato noodles give. They just bring an extra element into the dish. They can generally be purchased in most asian super markets.

This recipe can be used with any other kind of noodle like vermicelli, rice noodles, etc. You can also choose the ingredients that you like to use. So this is just my own variation of what I did for lunch the other day.

Ingredients:

Potato noodles

Brown Onion

Corn (fresh or frozen)

Prawns (`100g)

White button Mushrooms

Soy Sauce

Cooking Oil

(Sesame Oil)

• Step 1, boil water in a pot
• Step 2, while the water is heating up, cut up the onion, mushrooms (and prawns)
• Step 3, when the water has boiled, add in the potato noodles

Take note that the potato noodles will generally take longer to cook

• Step 4,  as the noodles are being boiled, heat up the cooking oil in a suacepan
• Step 5, when the oil has heated, add in the onion
• Step 6, when the onion has turned soft and translucent, add in the corn and mushrooms.
• Step 7, after the mushrooms have soften, add in the prawns. 
• Step 8, by now the noodles should have soften. Add in the noodles and add in the soy sauce (and sesame oil). Mix well.
• Step 9, ensure that everything has been cooked thoroughly and the flavour is to your liking. Serve.

This recipe is very similar to the Stir fried rice vermicelli just that it uses different noodles and ingredients. Hope you have fun making up your own variations!

Hugs for everyone! Think of your own variation :D