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Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, halloween kabocha squash gratin. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Halloween Kabocha Squash Gratin is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Halloween Kabocha Squash Gratin is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Cut the top part off and scoop out the inside with a spoon. [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. Sculpt a pumpkin out of the scooped-out kabocha flesh. Cut the top part off and scoop out the inside with a spoon.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook halloween kabocha squash gratin using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Halloween Kabocha Squash Gratin:
- Make ready 1 Kabocha squash
- Get 1 A Halloween Forest (refer to Step 3)
- Make ready Kabocha Gratin
- Get 25 small Shrimp
- Make ready 1 Chicken meat
- Get 1 Onion
- Get 1 can White mushrooms
- Get 1 Consomme soup stock cube
- Get 40 to 50 grams Butter
- Prepare 40 to 50 grams White flour
- Take 500 to 600 ml Milk
- Make ready 100 grams Macaroni (optional)
- Prepare 1 Salt and pepper
Here is how you achieve that. Once the squash is done, manually release the steam. Kabocha Gratin with a Japanese twist is the ultra comfort food in cold weather months. In this recipe, tender chunks of sweet kabocha, umami mushrooms and macaroni are cooked in a creamy béchamel sauce, topped off with panko breadcrumbs and baked until crispy golden.
Instructions to make Halloween Kabocha Squash Gratin:
- 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).
- Cut the top part off and scoop out the inside with a spoon.
- [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.
- 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.
- [To make the kabocha gratin] Microwave the scooped-out flesh from Step 2.
- Melt butter in a pot, sauté the shrimp and chicken cut into desired sizes, add the thinly sliced onions, then the mushrooms.
- Once the onions are tender, remove the pot from heat, add flour, then mix thoroughly with a spatula.
- Mix in milk a little at a time, stirring in as you go, then add a consomme cube.
- 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.
- Add the kabocha from Step 5 and the gratin is finished. You can also add cooked macaroni at this stage.
- 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.)
Kabocha Gratin with a Japanese twist is the ultra comfort food in cold weather months. In this recipe, tender chunks of sweet kabocha, umami mushrooms and macaroni are cooked in a creamy béchamel sauce, topped off with panko breadcrumbs and baked until crispy golden. You can use rice or pasta for your choice of carb. Thinly slice the onion, then gently sauté in the frying pan with butter. Once the onions have fully cooked, mix in a little flour at a time.
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