Okay Jacqui,
Here’s my easy peasy recipe for Pumkin Pie
Pumpkin Pie
1 kg pumpkin, peeled,
1 cup rice (brown gives a crunch and nutty flavour but white is fine too)
1 egg
½ cup milk
1 ¼ cup cheese
salt & pepper
1 cup breadcrumbs.
Method
- Boil pumpkin and mash, adding a dob of butter.
- Boil rice. Add rice, egg, 1 cup cheese, milk and seasonings to pumpkin. Smooth into dish.
- Top with remaining cheese and breadcrumbs.
- Bake 25-30 min in 180C degree oven (350F).
- Serve with crusty bread and a tossed green salad.
Serves approximately 4.
I vary this depending upon what is in the fridge. If we have left over Fried Rice, I add that or corn, mushroom, etc
I also play around with herbs/spices like nutmeg, caraway seeds and lots more pepper.
Sometimes, I add parmesan cheese to the mix and maybe even crushed cornflakes instead of breadcrumbs.
If we have a vegetable soup, like a broccoli or cauliflower soup, made with home made stock, this will do us for a main meal…along with fruit or a piece of bread n jam afterwards. 😉
Oh that sounds nice 🙂 I think it is so important to have these kind of recipes that don’t require meat. I love meat but the price of shopping these days is getting more and more expensive and I am looking for cheaper, yet filling, recipes for my family. As you said, pumpkin is really cheap at the moment too.
Gosh, I love the sound of the central markets! I might have to fly over and do some shopping 😉
And seeing as the Dockers have let me down so far this year I might need to move state and change teams!!……………nah, I’ll give them a few more weeks 🙄