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Sicilian Pumpkin Main

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The Beginnings of a Healthy Meal

Today we harvested a very large and bright orange pumpkin and our thoughts turned to one of our favorite recipes Sicilian Pumpkin and here it is, quick, healthy and deliciously sustaining. This can be served with rice, salad, bread or in this case, hummus and silver beet with Capsicum Jelly sauce.

Sicilian Pumpkin

1 Kg pumpkin
4TBS olive oil
2 TBS pine nuts
1 Lge clove garlic (finely chopped)
2 tiny dried birds eye chillies (crushed)
1/4 tsp salt
75 ml white wine vinegar
75 ml water
2 TBS Sultanas
1/4 cup tiny mint leaves

Chop pumpkin in wedges, cut out seeds and chop off skin
Heat oil, add pumpkin pieces once it is hot
Fry pumpkin, add pine nuts, add garlic, and chilli, sprinkle pumpkin
with salt and cook 1 min or 2 more
Pour in the vinegar and water – add sultanas and immediately cover with a lid
Turn heat to low and cook very gently for 5 minutes or until tender
Remove lid, transfer pumpkin to a dish with all the juices
Scatter over the mint
Serve piping hot in winter or at room temperature when weather heats up

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Sicilian Pumpkin Main

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