How to bake a pumpkin in the oven in its entirety and slices

Pumpkin, baked in the oven with slices, is a simple tasty dish that never gets boring. It can be served as a dessert, a little sweetening. Or use as a side dish. Let's talk about how to bake a pumpkin in an oven in Thai with custard. And also consider a more traditional spicy version.

How to bake a pumpkin in an oven with spices

Use the vegetable peeler. With it, cut the skin from the pumpkin. With a knife, remove the seeds from it. Preheat the oven. Mix the spicy paprika with ground ginger, large sea salt and several boxes of green cardamom. Slices of pumpkin should not be very thick: from one and a half to two centimeters in thickness. From this directly depends on how much to bake a pumpkin in the oven by the time you have. If the pieces are thick, the cooking time will increase, and the surface of the vegetable can dry. Slices should be laid in dense rows in a refractory, richly oiled form, from above place the seasoning. Large salt should be preferred small because the small one will quickly dissolve in the pumpkin juice, and this will cause the dish to become watery. Bake a pumpkin should not more than one hour. Serve should be warm.

How to bake a pumpkin in an oven entirely in Thai

This unusual dessert, also called sankaya or pumpkin custard, looks very exotic and will be a real surprise to the celebration of Halloween. However, on any other day it will be pleasant to you and your guests no less. Despite its original appearance, it is extremely simple to prepare. In Thailand, it is sold at every corner by street vendors sweets. One piece can completely replace the whole breakfast due to the high content of carbohydrates. Take one round and ripe pumpkin, thoroughly wash. Cut out the tail - you will get a round hole. Through it, you need to remove seeds and septums without cutting the pumpkin (this is best done with the help of a sharp spoon). In the cavity, pour the custard (in the original - a mixture of eggs, palm sugar and coconut milk) and bake in the oven.

In Thailand, steamers are used for this. While the pumpkin is baking, the cream in the middle freezes and becomes sufficiently dense, which allows then to cut the fruit into several neat slices. The dry heat of the oven is still not very suitable for baking such a dessert. To approximate its properties to the properties of the steamer, you can put a container of water under the baking tray. In an authentic recipe, before baking a pumpkin in the oven, the cream turns greenish and is flavored with pandan leaves. You can take vanilla or cinnamon for this purpose. The oven needs forty-five minutes, you can check the readiness by poking a pumpkin with a fork. The dessert needs to be cooled and cut for serving in slices in the form of a pie.

Custard according to the classic recipe

It will take half a liter of ordinary or coconut milk, two yolks, sugar to taste and a few tablespoons of flour (it is a thickener). Take a clean container and a whisk. Whisk the sugar with the yolks to a white mass. Add flour, break the lumps. Carefully pour into boiled and chilled milk and reheat, and then cook.