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Sweet and sour pumpkin

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Ingredients for 4 servings:

  • 1 kg pumpkin(s) (garden pumpkin)
  • 250 g sugar
  • 125 ml vinegar (apple cider vinegar)
  • 1 lemon(s), untreated
  • ½ stalk(s) cinnamon
  • 5 carnations
  • 1 cm ginger, fresh

Instructions

Working time approx. 25 minutes; Rest time approx. 1 hour; Total time approx. 1 hour 25 minutes

Very tasty with boiled beef

Peel the pumpkin, remove the seeds and white inner membrane, and cut into approximately 2 cm cubes. Combine the sugar, vinegar, 250 ml water, lemon juice, and grated lemon zest in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add the pumpkin cubes. Add the remaining spices and simmer for 30 minutes. Then remove the ginger, cloves, and cinnamon stick and let the pumpkin cool in the sauce. Tastes great with boiled beef.

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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 29 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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