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Roast Butternut Pumpkin

Here's how you make Roast Butternut Pumpkin
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  • Servings: 8
  • Prep: 10m
  • Cook: 75m
    • The following recipe serves 8 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1 whole (2 kilogram) pumpkin (butternut pumpkin, whole, halved length ways, de seeded)
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 150 grams onion (1 large)
  • 1 garlic clove, large
  • 3/4 cup panko breadcrumbs
  • 50 grams walnuts, chopped (1/2 cup)
  • 1 tablespoon sage, fresh finely chopped
  • 1 tablespoon wholegrain mustard
  • 1 cup grated tasty cheese
  • Whole sage leaves extra for garnish
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat the oven to 180°c.

  • Step 2: Score surface of pumpkin in a criss-cross type pattern about 1 cm apart. Brush pumpkin with a little of the oil and then season with salt and pepper. Place (halved de seeded) pumpkin in a roasting pan and bake for 50 - 60 minutes until nearly tender.

  • Step 3: Meanwhile, heat remaining oil in a frying pan and cook onion and garlic for 6 minutes or until soft; then cool.

  • Step 4: Combine the onion mixture, breadcrumbs, walnut, sage, mustard and 3/4 cup cheese in a bowl & mix well.

  • Step 5: Fill hollows of both pumpkin halves with mixture; Sprinkle with remaining cheese and bake for a further 15 minutes or until golden and pumpkin is tender.

  • Step 6: Garnish with the extra sage leaves.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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