Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Perfect Whole Pumpkin Gratin

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, whole pumpkin gratin. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Whole Pumpkin Gratin is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Whole Pumpkin Gratin is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have whole pumpkin gratin using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Whole Pumpkin Gratin:

1. Take 1 pumpkin (kabocha)
2. Prepare 1 onion (slice thinly)
3. Prepare 1/2-1 pack shimeji mushrooms (tear into bite sized pieces)
4. Take 100 g bacon, or as much as you like (cut into bite sized pieces)
5. Take 10-20 g butter
6. Get 2 Tbsp flour
7. Prepare 1/2-1 bouillon cube (optional)
8. Take 500-600 ml milk
9. Take Cheese (as much as you want)
10. Get 2 tbsp panko bread crumbs
11. Make ready salt and pepper

Instructions to make Whole Pumpkin Gratin:

1. Wash the pumpkin and cover with plastic wrap and cook in the microwave until softened. ＊Be careful not to heat it up too much. (reference: 8~10 mins in 700W)
2. Cut about 1/4 of the upper part of the pumpkin. Scoop out the seeds and scrape pumpkin meat from shell. (leave at least 1 cm of the shell)
3. Heat the butter in a pan over medium heat, stir fry onion, shimeji mushrooms, bacon until the onions are browned. Turn down the heat and add the flour and mix well. Pour the milk little by little to get the smooth sauce. Add the pumpkin meat, salt and pepper and cook until thickened.(adjust the thickness to your taste)
4. Pour the mixture into the pumpkin, sprinkle cheese and panko bread crumbs on top and bake in 200℃ oven for 20~25 mins or until heated thoroughly. (Cheese starts to brown and panko bread crumbs are golden)

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