Whole Pumpkin Gratin. Bake this cheesy, savory bread pudding, with sweet apples inside a WHOLE pumpkin: Whole Pumpkin Cheddar Gratin! Use an entire hand-sized Japanese pumpkin, or kabocha as the base for your meal. Here's a recipe of "A whole pumpkin gratin" which is very easy to cook and surprisingly delicious.

The Pumpkin Gratin recipe out of our category flowering vegetables! Cook a whole pumpkin- cubed pumpkin. If you want to get chunks of pumpkin, rather than pumpkin puree, you can do that too. You can have Whole Pumpkin Gratin using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Whole Pumpkin Gratin

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

Use your knife to carefully trim the peel off of the pumpkin. Au gratin potatoes are one of the greatest casseroles of all time. Tender, fluffy potatoes are bathed in a rich and creamy cheese sauce, then baked in a hot oven until bubbly and crisp. Perfectly delish fall side dish: pumpkin and potato gratin.

Whole Pumpkin Gratin step by step

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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