Long story cut short, he told me to cook pumpkin with dried shrimps. And I went home and bravely tried it out.
Now, I realise how naive I was. This is a simple dish that anyone can get right the first time!
Ingredients:
1/2 pumpkin (cut off skin and remove seeds)
2 tablespoon preserved dried shrimps
1/3 teaspoon sugar
1 bowl of water
1) Cut the pumpkin into small pieces. Rinse dried shrimps.
2) Stir-fry dried shrimps till fragrant. Add in pumpkin.
3) Fry for a while. Add in 1/2 bowl of water with sugar. Wait till it boil. Then, cover the pan and turn to LOW heat.
4) Stew the dish for 10 minutes. Dish up.
NOTE: The stove I'm using is different from yours. Hence, for the first time that you cook this, it is important to check the dish constantly (every 2 minutes) to ensure that the water has not dried up completely. Otherwise, you may get a plate of burnt pumpkin!)
2 comments:
Hi Alice, you can also boil pumpkin with just enough water to cover the pieces and then purée it with a hand blender or "stick blender" to make into a thick creamy soup. Your son might like this as I know a lot of kids like it here in Australia (coz it's sweet). The other thing is to drain boiled pumpkin pieces and just mash it as you would for mashed potato. If you have the time, you can try to make pumpkin "gnocchi" (instead of potato gnocchi) by draining the pumpkin pieces really well and make sure they are totally dry, mash, then add it to a simple (pasta base) dough of plain flour and egg/s. It's a lot easier than making pasta because you just have to cut into pieces and flatten/roll with a fork just like "pan meen". Another dish I came across here was at a yumcha (timsum) restaurant where they steamed pork ribs with pumpkin pieces which was rather nice. And last but not least, the all-time Aussie favourite is roasted pumpkin - the easiest way to cook it. Just coat pumpkin chunks with oil and roast in the oven! :)
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll probably do it for my second baby who is coming next February.
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