If you are looking for a no waste idea this Halloween, here's how to turn your Halloween pumpkin into a sweet, fragrant, and perfect pot to contain delicious recipes. To make this transformation possible, let's leave our pumpkins in the garden or on the terrace and simply decorate them with black food coloring and surround them with lighted candles. On November 1st, they will be ready to be cooked!
Prepare the Halloween pumpkin
Wash the pumpkin under cold running water by brushing it and removing any residue. Dry it, cut the top off then dig out all the pulp with the help of a spoon. Separate the seeds and filaments and reduce it into cubes.
Halloween pumpkin oven-baked and stuffed with risotto
This is a great recipe to use up our Halloween pumpkin. First, take the pumpkin shell without its pulp, rub its inner surface with a clove of garlic and season it with oil and salt. Bake it at 160°C for about an hour and a half. After the first hour, prepare the risotto following this recipe:
Take the pumpkin out of the oven and fill it with the prepared risotto, adding butter and grated Parmigiano cheese and stirring it well before serving.
Halloween pumpkin filled with breadcrumbs, cheese and amaretti biscuits
This recipe has that Italian touch you’ll just love: amaretti biscuits. These cookies are often served in pastry shops to accompany a good coffee, they make the Piedmontese bunet recipe special and are often combined with the pumpkin which is a perfect pairing to enhance its sweetness.
Spoon Halloween pumpkin
The ultimate Halloween side dish to enrich any meal. Sweet and savory at the same time, it can be prepared to accompany meats, pies and other delicacies.