Easy Pumpkin Puree
All natural pumpkin puree for your favorite pumpkin recipes
Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Cook Time 1 hour hr
- 1 Organic of fresh from the garden Pumpkin
Preheat oven to °400
Snap the stem off of your pumpkin
Place it in an oven safe dish
BAKE at 400 degrees for about an hour
Remove from oven and let cool
After baked and cooled enough to touch
Cut pumpkin in half and scoop out the seeds with a large spoon or ice cream scoop
Set aside
Scoop out the flesh
Run the baked pumpkin flesh through a food processor to puree it
You may need to add a tablespoon or so of water to get it to the right consistency
This pumpkin puree will taste very different from what you're used to as the canned pumpkin isn't pumpkin :)
Use this pumpkin puree in any recipe that calls for pureed squash or pumpkin (like the Hummus recipe found in the attached blogpost Pumpkin Spice Craze
Keyword Gluten-free snack, Pumpkin