Roasted Pumpkin with Shallots and Sage
Recipe: #9646
May 20, 2013
Categories: Side Dishes, Pumpkin, Squash, 5 Ingredients Or Less, Oven Roast, Gluten-Free Low Cholesterol, No Eggs, Non-Dairy, Vegan, Vegetarian, more
"From Everyday Food/Martha Stewart. Sugar pumpkins are small pumpkins used for cooking and baking and have a much superior flavor than that of the big pumpkins you would choose for jack-a-lanterns. They are usually about the size of a cantaloupe. This recipe will have a flavor like that of roasted butternut squash, as pumpkin is a winter squash and similar in taste to other hard squash. This recipe doesn't add sweetener but should get a nicely natural sweetness when the pumpkin caramelizes towards the end of cooking, so it shouldn't really be necessary. I haven't done this recipe in particular yet but it is quite like other recipes I have tried that roast pumpkin. I'll post a photo when I do this one- it will be a few months before pumpkin starts coming to the market."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (50.9 g)
- Calories 229.4
- Total Fat - 10.6 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.5 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 9.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 31 g
- Dietary Fiber - 5.4 g
- Sugars - 5.8 g
- Protein - 4.6 g
- Calcium - 35.7 mg
- Iron - 1.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 5.7 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 450F.
Step 2
Place cubed pumpkin, shallots, and sage in a mixing bowl and toss with the oil. Then season with S&P and toss again.
Step 3
Spread the pumpkin out in a single layer on a baking sheet, giving it plenty of room (2 baking sheets is recommended); I like to line my baking sheets with nonstick foil to make turning the pumpkin easier.
Step 4
Roast it about 30-35 minutes, turning the pumkpin pieces over after about 15 minutes; it is also a good idea to switch the positions of the two baking sheets to allow it to roast evenly.
Step 5
Continue roasting until the pumpkin darkens and caramelizes but is not burnt; this may take a few more or less minutes depending on your oven.
Tips
No special items needed.