Halloween Kabocha Squash Gratin
Halloween Kabocha Squash Gratin

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, halloween kabocha squash gratin. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Halloween Kabocha Squash Gratin is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Halloween Kabocha Squash Gratin is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Kabocha is a Japanese squash or pumpkin. So what better way to celebrate Halloween then with a stuffed kabocha jack-o-lantern! This recipe is sure to please.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook halloween kabocha squash gratin using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Halloween Kabocha Squash Gratin:
  1. Make ready 1 Kabocha squash
  2. Prepare 1 A Halloween Forest (refer to Step 3)
  3. Get Kabocha Gratin
  4. Take 25 small Shrimp
  5. Get 1 Chicken meat
  6. Take 1 Onion
  7. Make ready 1 can White mushrooms
  8. Prepare 1 Consomme soup stock cube
  9. Take 40 to 50 grams Butter
  10. Prepare 40 to 50 grams White flour
  11. Prepare 500 to 600 ml Milk
  12. Make ready 100 grams Macaroni (optional)
  13. Get 1 Salt and pepper

Both butternut and kabocha squash provide lots of vitamin A and C to bolster your immune system, especially important during cold and flu season. So head to your local farmer's market and pick up some butternut and kabocha squash for the recipe I am sharing with you. Kabocha squash has a pale green rind and light orange flesh. Substitute butternut squash or pumpkin if you have trouble finding kabocha.

Steps to make Halloween Kabocha Squash Gratin:
  1. Heat the kabocha in the microwave until it's tender enough to carve with a knife (I microwaved it for 10 minutes, flipped it over and microwaved for another 10 minutes. Depending on the size, 6 minutes each side may be enough).
  2. Cut the top part off and scoop out the inside with a spoon.
  3. [To make the Halloween forest] Place the lid upside down and put into the hollowed kabocha. Make a mountain out of mashed potatoes, and stick in stalks of parsley and rosemary.
  4. Sculpt a pumpkin out of the scooped-out kabocha flesh. Cut out a carrot hat and lay it on top of a boiled egg jack-o'-lantern. Make a house out of daikon radish and nori seaweed. Construct a gravestone out of konnyaku and cheese. Spread a pavement of nuts and seeds.
  5. [To make the kabocha gratin] Microwave the scooped-out flesh from Step 2.
  6. Melt butter in a pot, sauté the shrimp and chicken cut into desired sizes, add the thinly sliced onions, then the mushrooms.
  7. Once the onions are tender, remove the pot from heat, add flour, then mix thoroughly with a spatula.
  8. Mix in milk a little at a time, stirring in as you go, then add a consomme cube.
  9. Return the pot to heat and simmer until you reach your desired thickness while stirring with a spatula. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
  10. Add the kabocha from Step 5 and the gratin is finished. You can also add cooked macaroni at this stage.
  11. Pour the gratin into the kabocha shell from Step 2, after it has cooled down. (If it's too full, the lid will not close, so add more when you bake it in the oven.)

Prepare the gratin a day ahead and refrigerate; store the breadcrumb topping separately. Kabocha squash, otherwise known as the Japanese pumpkin, is a green winter squash from the Cucurbita maxima family. It needs room for the vine to spread out and space for the squash to bloom and develop. A flavorful fall kabocha squash soup made by roasting the squash and pureeing it with fresh ginger and topping it with a sesame quinoa granola. Kabocha squash, also known as Japanese pumpkin, is perfect for roasting, stuffing, pureeing, and more.

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