List of squash and pumpkin dishes explained

This is a list of notable squash and pumpkin dishes that are prepared using squash and pumpkin as a primary ingredient. Pumpkin is a squash cultivar.

Squash and pumpkin dishes and foods

• Hobak-juk – a Korean variety of juk (porridge) made with pumpkin and glutinous rice flour.^[1] It is a smooth and naturally sweet porridge that is traditionally served to the elderly or recovering patients.^[2]
• Hobak-tteok – a Korean dish and variety of siru-tteok (steamed rice cake) made by mixing fresh or dried pumpkin with glutinous or non-glutinous rice flour, then steaming the mixture in a siru (rice cake steamer).^[3]
• Kadu bouranee – an Afghan and Turkish dish made by frying pumpkin with different spices
• Maraq – a Somali soup that is sometimes prepared using pumpkin
• Mashed pumpkin – a vegetable dish made by cooking or macerating the skinless flesh (pulp) of pumpkins and then mashing, straining, grinding, or puréeing until the desired consistency is achieved. It is traditionally served as a side dish,^[4] although it has many uses in cooking and baking.^[5]
• Misti kumra bhorta - Misti kumra bhorta (মিষ্টি কুমড়া ভর্তা) is a well-known Bengali dish served with rice. It is made with boiled pumpkin pulp mashed with chilli, sliced onions, mustered oil and salt.^[6]

• Pumpkin bread – a type of moist quick bread made with pumpkin.^[7]
• Pumpkin seed – a snack food typically consisting of roasted seeds, they are also used as an ingredient in some dishes, such as mole.

• Pumpkin seed oil – has an intense nutty taste and is rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, it is sometimes used as a salad dressing. The typical Styrian dressing consists of pumpkin seed oil and cider vinegar. The oil is also used for desserts, giving ordinary vanilla ice cream a nutty taste.
• Spaghetti alla Nerano – an Italian pasta dish prepared using pasta, fried zucchinis and provolone del Monaco (or caciocavallo).^[8]
• Stuffed squash – consists of various kinds of squash or zucchini stuffed with rice and sometimes meat and cooked on the stovetop or in the oven.

• Ghapama – an Armenian stuffed pumpkin dish that often prepared during the Christmas season, it is typically stuffed with rice and dried fruits.^[9]

• Stuffed pumpkin – consists of pumpkin that has been stuffed with various ingredients and roasted or baked, it is a dish in American cuisine.^{[10] [11]}

Desserts and sweets

• Bundevara – a Serbian sweet pie made of rolled phyllo or similar to strudel, filled with sweetened grated pumpkin pulp and baked in an oven.
• Fakthong kaeng buat – a Thai dish consisting of pumpkin in coconut cream^[12]
• Kabak tatlısı – a Turkish pumpkin dessert made by cooking peeled and cut pumpkin that has been sprinkled with sugar (candied pumpkin).
• Poke – a dessert from the Cook Islands and French Polynesia that prepared using pumpkin or bananas.^[13]
• Picarones – a Peruvian dessert with principal ingredients of squash and sweet potato, it is served in a doughnut form and covered with syrup, made from chancaca (solidified molasses).
• Pumpkin-coconut custard – a dessert dish consisting of a coconut custard steam-baked in a pumpkin or kabocha
• Pumpkin pie – a dessert pie with a spiced, pumpkin-based custard filling
• Butternut Pumpkin jam or murabba–is a butternut pumpkin-based sweet fruit preserve in Tabriz, Iranian Azerbaijan

Soups and stews

• Quibebe – a winter squash stew from South America
• Squash soup – a soup prepared using various types of squash as a primary ingredient

• Pumpkin soup – various preparations of the dish are known in many European countries, the United States and other areas of North America, and in Australia.

• Soup joumou – a mildly spicy soup native to Haitian cuisine that is traditionally based on a large winter squash that resembles a pumpkin.

Beverages

• Pumpkin ale and beer – the brewing of beer with pumpkin in the United States has been dated back to at least 1771.^[14]

See also

• Candy pumpkin
• List of fruit dishes
• List of gourds and squashes
• List of vegetable dishes
• Pumpkin pie spice

• Pumpkin Spice Latte

Notes and References

1. Web site: 주요 한식명(200개) 로마자 표기 및 번역(영, 중, 일) 표준안. National Institute of Korean Language. 30 July 2014. ko. 14 February 2017.
   • 2014-05-02 . ko:주요 한식명 로마자 표기 및 표준 번역 확정안 공지 . http://www.korean.go.kr/front/board/boardStandardView.do?board_id=4&mn_id=17&b_seq=1465 . . ko.
2. Web site: hobak-juk. 강. 인희. Encyclopedia of Korean Culture. Academy of Korean Studies. ko. ko:호박죽. 1 May 2017.
3. Web site: hobak-tteok. Standard Korean Language Dictionary. National Institute of Korean Language. ko. ko:호박떡. 28 March 2017.
4. Ingersoll, Jared. Sharing Plates: A Table for All Seasons. Millers Point, N.S.W.: Murdoch Books, 2007.
5. Krondl, Michael. The Great Little Pumpkin Cookbook. New york: Celestial Arts, 1999.
6. Web site: মিষ্টি কুমড়ার ভর্তা বানাবেন যেভাবে. Dhaka Tribune. Dhaka Tribune. bn. 21 February 2024.
7. Book: Bread Machines For Dummies. 9781118069271. 19 January 2015. Vance. Glenna. Lacalamita. Tom. 27 April 2011.
8. Book: Forgione, Alfredo. La migliore amica di Alfredo. Rogiosi. 2016. 9788869501661. 73.
9. Book: Petrosian . I. . Underwood . D. . Armenian Food: Fact, Fiction & Folklore . Yerkir Publishing . Armenian Research Center collection . 2006 . 978-1-4116-9865-9 . September 3, 2018 . 120.
10. Web site: Sweet Or Savory: Stuff, Bake And Devour A Pumpkin . NPR Staff . NPR . October 20, 2010 . September 7, 2018.
11. Web site: The stuffed-pumpkin dish that will make vegetarians (and everyone else) happy this Thanksgiving . Washington Post . November 13, 2017 . September 7, 2018.
12. Web site: Pumpkin in sweet coconut cream (Fak thong Keang Buat). September 3, 2016.
13. Book: Society of Ethnobotanists (India) . Ethnobotany: Journal of Society of Ethnobotanists . M/S Deep . v. 1-4 . 1989 . September 3, 2018 . 5.
14. News: Risen. Clay. The Divisive Pumpkin Ale. 17 July 2015. The Atlantic. Atlantic Media. 11 October 2011.